PMID: 9547182Apr 18, 1998Paper

Social functioning of schizophrenic patients after 15 years from the first hospitalization (Part I -- evaluation of social functioning)

Psychiatria polska
M Załuska

Abstract

Catamnestic data concerning 109 patients, inhabitants of Warsaw-Praga, hospitalized for the first time in the years 1978-79 with schizophrenia (92 persons) or paranoid psychosis-ICD IX number 297.9 (17 persons), were collected in 1993-94. Smaller number and shorter duration of hospitalisations has been observed during 15 years, in comparison with other Polish data. Twenty persons died during the period of observation. In the group of 85 investigated persons-69% were not working at all-15% were fully and 18% partially unable to meet their basic needs on their own-29% were temporarily or permanently unable to function adequately in their marital and/or parental roles, 31% were single and childless. Taking into account the mortality among 109 observed persons (18.7% during 15 years); good prognosis according to social functioning has been found in 48.6% of the group observed at first hospitalisation.

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