E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The purpose of present study was to explore the characteristics of DAP performance between chronic patients with schizophrenia and patients with traumatic brain injury. The subjects were 52 chronic patients with schizophrenia and 41 patients with traumatic brain injury who were hospitalized in or visited as outpatients the Yonsei Univ. Hospital during the period from the March, 1998 to October, 1999. The index of assessing the drawing were the size, pressure of line, sexual elaboration, sexual differentiation, placement, posture, continuity of line, sequence, transparency, omission(22 subvariables ; ear, mouth, body, shoulder, arm, leg, hand, finger, foot, button, pocket, necktie, etc.). And the data were analized using the method of t-test and frequency analysis. The results were as follows. 1) Siginificant difference was found between the two groups in size, pressure, sexual elaboration, sexual differentiation. 2) Significant difference was found between the two groups in the continuity of line, transparency, omission. And the availablity of DAP, implication and limitations of this study were discussed.