1. Factors Associated with the Course and Outcome of Schizophrenia in India Results of a Two-Year Multicentre Follow-Up Study
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B. B. Sethi, J Richard, J. K. Trivedi, S. Rajkumar, Jacob John, and Abraham Verghese
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Adult ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Psychomotor agitation ,media_common.quotation_subject ,MEDLINE ,India ,Rural Health ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Dangerous Behavior ,medicine ,Humans ,Multicenter Studies as Topic ,Personality ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Psychiatry ,Psychomotor Agitation ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,media_common ,Depressive Disorder ,business.industry ,Rural health ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,Religion ,Clinical trial ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Schizophrenia ,Schizophrenic Psychology ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Follow-Up Studies ,Diagnosis of schizophrenia - Abstract
The paper describes the two-year follow-up results from 323 out of 386 patients fulfilling a modified version of Feighner's criteria for diagnosis of schizophrenia, in Lucknow, Vellore, and Madras. There was remission in 66% of cases. Short duration of illness, consistent compliance with medication, positive attitudes of relatives and neighbours, absence of economic difficulties, increase in religious activities on the part of patients, a rural background, and a non-schizoid pre-morbid personality were associated with good outcome. Features of depression, dangerous behaviour, and absence of agitation were associated with poor outcome.
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- 1989
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