Features associated with thought disorder in manic patients at 2-4-year follow-up
Abstract
The authors assessed 47 formerly hospitalized manic patients for thought disorder 2-4 years after discharge and studied the relationship between thought disorder and other major clinical variables. Fourteen (30%) of the manic patients showed severe positive thought disorder 2-4 years after hospitalization. Partial correlations and multiple regression analyses indicated that thought disorder at follow-up was most closely related to the presence of manic behavior and psychosis. It was also more frequent in manic patients with poor posthospital functioning and in manic patients