Table 2.
Rank Order of Frequency of Individual First-Rank Symptoms in Our Historical Review and in Four Empirical Studies of Schizophrenia Patient Populations
| First-Rank Delusion | Our Study | Mellor— UK 6 |
Carpenter— USA90 | Koehler— Germany91 |
Malik— Pakistan92 |
Mean of Modern Studies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank frequency of the individual first-rank symptoms | ||||||
| Somatic passivity | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Thought insertion | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Thought withdrawal | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Made actions | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Thought broadcasting | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Made feelings | 6 | 6 | 6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Made impulses | 7 | 7 | 6.5 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Rank correlation with the current study | +0.61 | +0.38 | +0.68 | +0.75 | +0.61 |