Pedersen Natalia, Ernst Nielsen René
Team for Psychotic Disorders, Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aalborg University Hospital, Brandevej 5, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark.
Case Rep Psychiatry. 2013;2013:659698. doi: 10.1155/2013/659698. Epub 2013 Jul 9.
This case report describes the progression of symptoms in a young deaf female. Her initial psychotic symptoms occur at the age of 16, but she did not come into contact with a psychiatric treatment facility before the age of 27, where she felt symptoms were distressing. The case report describes the difficulties in evaluating psychotic symptoms in a deaf patient, as well as the use of specialized scales in combination with the standard psychiatric evaluation. The current evidence, concerning the prevalence of psychotic symptoms, as well as the influence of deafness on the understanding of psychosis, is described.
本病例报告描述了一名年轻失聪女性的症状进展情况。她最初的精神病症状出现在16岁，但在27岁之前她并未接触过精神科治疗机构，直到那时她才感到症状令人痛苦。该病例报告描述了评估失聪患者精神病症状的困难，以及在标准精神科评估中结合使用专门量表的情况。文中还介绍了目前有关精神病症状患病率以及失聪对理解精神病影响的证据。
