The Schizophrenic Rehabilitee
N. L. GITTLESON M.A., D.M., D.P.M.1
1 Consultant Psychiatrist, Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield
Thirty-five schizophrenic rehabilitees admitted to a Ministry of Labour Industrial Rehabilitation Unit over a period of 52 consecutive weeks were studied. The criterion of performance on course was premature termination versus normal completion of the course. 17 per cent. (6 out of 35) were diagnosed as schizophrenic for the first time whilst on the course. Those schizophrenics whose illness was of less than 80 months duration failed the course nearly 9 times more frequently than those whose illness was of more than 80 months duration.
Submitted on March 8, 1965
