Faculty Articles
Title
Empirical clusters of disordered behavior among older psychiatric inpatients.
ISBN or ISSN
0022-1422
Publication Title
Journal of gerontology
Volume
45
Issue
1
Publication Date / Copyright Date
1-1-1990
First Page
28
Last Page
32
Publisher
Gerontological Society of America
DOI Number
10.1093/geronj/45.1.P28
Abstract
Various researchers have suggested that traditional psychiatric nosologies may not be as useful in understanding and planning for persons with disordered behavior as might be categories based on empirical research. Although a number of cluster analytic studies have suggested that this approach can generate meaningful typologies of behavior among psychiatric patients, little attention has been paid to the issue of categorization of psychiatric disorders among older chronic inpatients. This paper presents results of a preliminary study targeted at developing a categorization system with such patients. A six-cluster solution was obtained using K-means clustering. The six clusters were "Paranoid Symptoms," "Motor Symptoms," "Depressive Symptoms," "Nonsymptomatic," "Positive Symptoms," and "Negative Symptoms." Results of this study of patients whose psychiatric disorders arose early in life are contrasted with studies of patients whose disorders occurred late in life.
Disciplines
Medical Specialties | Medicine and Health Sciences | Osteopathic Medicine and Osteopathy
Keywords
Aged, Behavior, Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenic Psychology
NSUWorks Citation
Ownby, Raymond L. and Seibel, H P., "Empirical clusters of disordered behavior among older psychiatric inpatients." (1990). Faculty Articles. 42.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_com_faculty_articles/42
