SCL-90-R SYMPTOM PATTERNS FOR ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS

We collected Symptom Check List-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) symptom pattern and severity data from a sample of 486 adolescent psychiatric inpatients. Preliminary comparison of these data with previously published data for adolescent nonpatients suggested no meaningful differences in overall symptom severity, although the data suggested higher Positive Symptom Distress Index (PSDI) scores for inpatients, less severe somatization and psychoticism symptoms for inpatient males compared to nonpatient males, and more severe depressive symptoms for inpatient females compared tc nonpatient femaies. Future studies should be directed toward further analyses of such data and the development of representative and generalizabie adolescent inpatient norms tor the SCL-90-R. © 1991, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.