Forensic Psychiatric Assessment for Organic Personality Disorders after Cranio-cerebral Trauma
10.3969/j.issn.1004-5619.2017.02.010
- VernacularTitle:颅脑损伤后器质性人格障碍的司法精神病学分析
- Author:
Chenhu LI
;
Lina HUANG
;
Mingchang ZHANG
;
Meng HE
- Keywords:
forensic psychiatry;
craniocerebral traum a;
personality disorders;
clinical features;
N euroticism E xtraversion O penness Five-Factor Inventory
- From:Journal of Forensic Medicine
2017;33(2):158-161
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective T o explore the occurrence and the differences of clinical m anifestations of organic personality disorder w ith varying degrees of craniocerebral traum a. Methods A ccording to the Interna-tional C lassification of D iseases-10, 396 subjects w ith craniocerebral traum a caused by traffic accidents w ere diagnosed, and the degrees of craniocerebral traum a w ere graded. T he personality characteristics of all patients w ere evaluated using the sim plified N euroticism E xtraversion O penness Five-Factor Inventory (N E O-FFI). Results T he occurrence rate of organic personality disorder w as 34.6% w hile it w as 34.9%and 49.5% in the patients w ith m oderate and severe craniocerebral traum a, respectively, w hich signifi-cantly higher than that in the patients (18.7% ) of m ild craniocerebral traum a (P<0.05). C om pared w ith the patients w ithout personality disorder, the neuroticism , extraversion and agreeableness scores all show ed significantly differences (P<0.05) in the patients of m ild craniocerebral traum a w ith personality disorder; the neuroticism , extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness scores show ed significantly differences (P<0.05) in the patients of m oderate and severe craniocerebral traum a w ith personality disor-der. T he agreeableness and conscientiousness scores in the patients of m oderate and severe craniocerebral traum a w ith personality disorder w ere significantly low er than that of m ild craniocerebral traum a, and the patients of severe craniocerebral traum a had a low er score in extraversion than in the patients of m ild craniocerebral traum a. Conclusion T he severity of craniocerebral traum a is closely related to the in-cidence of organic personality disorder, and it also affects the clinical features of the latter, w hich pro-vides a certain significance and help for forensic psychiatric assessm ent.
