Socio-Economic Adjustment of a Sample of Schizophrenic Patients

Cole, Nyla J.; Brewer, David L.; Branch, C. H. Hardin

doi:10.1176/ajp.120.5.465

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“…Neither do the findings in this study of patients in and out of hospital over a period of up to thirty-five years reflect the somewhat optimistic note found either in shorter term community follow up studies (3,4,6,15), or in those studies which are based only on the hospital experience of the patient (7,10,11,13,14,18). This seems to be true whether such hospitalization studies predate or ante-date the introduction of specific therapies.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 59%

Twenty-Five and Thirty-Five Year Follow up of First Admissions to Mental Hospital

1968

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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This has been a report of a study designed to assess the feasibility of long-term follow-up studies on Prince Edward Island. Cohorts of patients first admitted to the Island's only mental hospital during the early nineteen-thirties and early nineteen-forties were followed in retrospect in order to determine, a) the course and outcome of the major disorders over periods ranging up to thirty-five years and, b) the long-term effects of these disorders upon the families of the patients. Needed information was gathered through a review of hospital records, a search for death records and community interviews. The results of the study suggest that lifetime prognosis in the absence of modern treatment methods may be even worse than believed by most professionals working in the field. As might be expected the outlook was found to be particularly grave for schizophrenia. Success in following up a very high proportion of the cases over several decades supports the belief that Prince Edward Island offers unusual opportunities for studies of this kind.

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Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 59%

Twenty-Five and Thirty-Five Year Follow up of First Admissions to Mental Hospital

1968

Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal

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“…Indeed, one short-term study of male schizo¬ phrenics done in 1963 gave similar results, with patients spending 65% of their time employed. 32 Despite difficulties in comparing the patient group with the general population, birth, marriage, and divorce rates would not appear to be very different, although a lower proportion of patients are married. The statement that schizophrenics have a very low fertility" would not seem to be substantiated, but the results would seem to be more consistent with the finding of an increasing fertility rate for schizophrenics in New York.…”

Section: Outcomementioning

confidence: 99%