Scholastic evolving for psychotic boy-schools and students. About 154 case reports
Author: Ayadi N, Maalej M, Jarraya A
Source:
Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence, 43(9), 375-380.
The authors report their results for a medico-scholastic retrospective study performed in Sfax, Southern Tunisia, on a sample of 154 young boy schools and university students-that are in totality psychotics, mainly schizophrenics: in 92.2 per cent of them. Scholastic fall is noticed in 26 per cent of cases, contrasting in some cases with previously scholastic good results; that are consecutive to superinvestment of the scholarship as psychologic 'refuge'. Troubles in scholastic behaviour and indiscipline are frequent. They are generally tolerated by teachers during a long time: They often regard them as youth excentricity features. Our patients had been benefiting of a multidisciplinary and coordinated following up including psychiatric, psycho-pedagogic ways and; in some cases, social and sociofamilial case work following up. Despite an intensive and consistent action in such a following up, the scholastic evolving had been marked by frequently redoubling for about a third of our sample of population (36.4 per cent), and scholarship, interruption in a transcient way for 12.5 per cent of them and in a final one for 17 per cent of them. For long term following up, only half of the population have been found to continue their scholarship. The conclusion that emerges from this work is that psychosis is dangerously compromising the scholarship. It will be noted meanwhile that a low structurating family context was found in the majority of our cases, that means an aggravating factor in two ways both: as by scholastic inhibition, and by psychosis in it self as well.