CRITERIA FOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS AND RELEVANCE OF NOSOLOGICAL QUALIFICATIONOF THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SPECTRUM SEMIOTICS IN CHILDREN WITH SCHIZOFORM,NEUROTIC AND EMOTIONAL-BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS (BASIS FOR CLINICAL SCALE)

The aim of the study is to establish and develop criteria for differential diagnosis and nosological qualification of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum semiotics in children with schizoform,neurotic and emotional-behavioral disorders.Contingents and methods. 100 children were examined and divided into 3 groups according to their nosological affiliation. Group 1 (G1) included 40 children with schizoform disorders.Group 2 (G2) consisted of 30 children with neurotic spectrum disorders. Group 3 (G3) included30 children with emotional-behavioral disorders of childhood. All patients were examined usingpsychoanamnestic, clinical-psychopathological (with auxiliary clinical-ethological method) andpathopsychological methods.Based on the results of psychoanamnestic, clinical-psychopathological, clinical-ethologicaland pathopsychological research of children with schizoform, neurotic and emotional-behavioraldisorders, four main and one additional criteria for differential diagnosis and relevance of thenosological qualification of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum semiotics in children with schizoform, neurotic and emotional-behavioral disorders were formed: a specific cluster of qualitativethematic characteristics, a typology of obsessional themes, a specific cluster of structural-dynamiccharacteristics, clinical arrangement options and a specific constellation of subjectively felt andobjectively observed anxiety manifestations.These criteria provide the basis for the development of the “Scale for Differential Diagnosisand Relevance of the Nosological Qualification of the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Semiotics”.It is assumed that the scale will consist of three modules: a three-stage thematic module, a threecomponent structural-dynamic module and a nosospecific module of clinical arrangement.