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Testleistung chronisch Schizophrener im HAWIE

Testing chronic schizophrenics with the HAWIE test

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Summary

The HAWIE test was given to 70 hospitalized chronic schizophrenics with the aim of

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    determining the intelligence level of the patients;

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    finding out to what extent possible changes in intelligence achievement are due to the sickness, the treatment, or the hospitalism. The test results were compared with the norm; they were also evaluated within the sample group, as a function of the amount of time spent in the institution. Compared with the norm, the intelligence level of the patients was low; one contributing factor was the duration of the hospitalization. In connection with the length of hospitalization, a deterioration of the non-verbal IQ was found; this is to be interpreted within the conceptual framework of the deprivation syndrome (hospitalism). Our test results have been compared with those of other studies focusing on the special HAWIE problem.

Zusammenfassung

Der HAWIE wurde an 70 hospitalisierten chronisch Schizophrenen durchgeführt, mit dem Ziel, 1. das Intelligenzniveau der Patienten zu bestimmen, 2. zu erkunden, inwiefern eventuelle Veränderungen der Intelligenzleistung durch die Krankheit, deren Behandlung und den Hospitalismus mit zu erklären sind. Die Testergebnisse wurden einerseits mit der Norm verglichen, andererseits innerhalb der Untersuchungsgruppe in Abhängigkeit von der Unterbringungsdauer gesehen. In bezug auf die Norm ist das Intelligenzniveau der Patienten als niedrig zu bezeichnen. Dies wird mit als ein Faktor der langdauernden Unterbringung gesehen. Im Zusammenhang mit der Unterbringungsdauer ist eine Verschlechterung des HandlungsIQ festzustellen, die im Rahmen eines Deprivationssyndroms (Hospitalismus) verstanden wird. Ferner werden unsere Testergebnisse denen anderer Untersuchungen unter Berücksichtigung der speziellen HAWIE-Problematik gegenübergestellt.

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Fieguth, G., Gonçalves, N. Testleistung chronisch Schizophrener im HAWIE. Arch. Psychiat. Nervenkr. 223, 139–149 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00345953

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