DIAGNOSTIC EFFICIENCY OF RORSCHACH PERCEPTUAL THINKING INDEX (PTI) IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT WITH PSYCHOSIS.

Prakriti Sinha, Ajay Kumar Singh, Dr. Alok Pratap, Dr. Ajay Kumar Bakhla,

Abstract


Background: Mental illness and cognitive deviance can be more difficult to diagnose in children and adolescent than in adults due to high co-morbidity and varied clinical presentation and studies which deal with Rorschach Perceptual Thinking Index, providing data about its satisfactory diagnostic performances particularly in children and adolescents are few.

Aims: To see the diagnostic efficacy of Rorschach Perceptual Thought Index (PTI) in assessment of thought disorder in children and adolescents with affective psychosis.

Method: A total of 30 patients with clinical diagnosis of bipolar manic with psychosis, and manic with psychosis and 30 normal controls between 8 to 17 years was taken and Rorschach was administered.

Results: The two groups differed significantly on the Rorschach PTI and will function most efficiently with a cut off score > 3 with high sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive power, positive predictive power, hit rate, low false positive rate & false negative rate.

Conclusion: The Rorschach PTI appears to be an efficient measure of thought disorder in children and adolescents.


Keywords


Rorschach; Perceptual Thinking Index; Childhood psychosis.

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