Eagles J M, Hunter D, McCance C
Ross Clinic, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen.
Br J Psychiatry. 1988 Jun;152:793-8. doi: 10.1192/bjp.152.6.793.
Annual age-standardised rates for first contacts with psychiatric services in the Aberdeen area from 1969 to 1984 were calculated for schizophrenia, paranoid states, reactive psychoses, all affective psychoses, mania, and depressive neuroses. Highly significant declines occurred in the diagnosis of schizophrenia and of depressive neuroses. No concomitant increase occurred. It is concluded that these results probably indicate that there has been a fall in the incidence of schizophrenia in North-East Scotland. This may have arisen due to changes in the mode of expression and/or the severity of all functional psychoses.
计算了1969年至1984年阿伯丁地区首次接触精神科服务的年龄标准化年发病率，涉及精神分裂症、偏执状态、反应性精神病、所有情感性精神病、躁狂症和抑郁性神经症。精神分裂症和抑郁性神经症的诊断出现了极显著下降。没有伴随的增加。结论是，这些结果可能表明苏格兰东北部精神分裂症的发病率有所下降。这可能是由于所有功能性精神病的表达方式和/或严重程度发生了变化。
