METHOD OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL ESTIMATION OF PSYCHIC STATE OF INFANTS AND PRESCHOOL CHILDREN Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61B5/16 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to field of medicine, in particular to psychiatry and can be applied for psychopathological estimation of psychic state of infants and preschool children. To perform psychopathological estimation of psychic state of infants and preschool children estimation of child's psychic and neurological state is performed. As symptoms of patient's psychic state estimated are state of sphere of cognitive functions: play, thinking, memory, speech; state of sphere of psychic activity: aim-oriented behaviour, volitional desires, motives, workability; state of emotional sphere, sphere of attraction, sensor perception, impairment of perception: acousma, photopsia, hallucinations, self-consciousness and state of sphere of social behaviour: communication disorders, autistic symptom, social skills. As symptoms of patient's neurological state, state of sphere of neurological signs, motor activity and state of initial vegetative tome - vagotonia and sympaticotonia are estimated. Estimation of each symptom is performed in points from 0 to 7. Total value of average point of identified symptoms for each sphere, reflecting severity of patient's psychic and neurological state, is calculated. Average points are summed up for each sphere and severity of state is determined in accordance with determined values, namely if the total sum of average points is from 0 to 9, psychic state is estimated as child's practical health; if value is from 10 to 18 points, presence of boundary psychic disorders is estimated, from 19 to 27 points - as mild severity of psychic disorders, from 28 to 36 - as moderate severity, from 37 to 45 points - as medium, from 46 to 54 - as severe, from 55 to 63 points, psychic state is estimated as extremely severe degree of psychic disorders.

EFFECT: method makes it possible to increase accuracy of psychic state of infants and preschool children due to application of differential and diagnostic criteria of symptoms of psychic disorders.

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