[Clinical features and work capacity of patients with sluggish schizophrenia and a hypochondriacal syndrome].

Under clinical study there were 170 patients suffering from slowly progressing schizophrenia with the hypochondriacal syndrome. The results obtained were processed by the variation statistics method, and statistically significant criteria for a favourable (or unfavourable) clinical and working prognosis were formulated. Some features of the time course of the clinical symptoms are described. It is shown that significant for an unfavourable prognosis is belated diagnosis. The authors suggest that hypochondriacal schizophrenia should be differentiated as an independent disease entity.