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The British Journal of Psychiatry 137: 63-68 (1980)
© 1980 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Schizophrenia: Schneider's first-rank symptoms and outcome

RC Bland and H Orn

The files of a narrowly defined group fo schizophrenic patients, admitted to hospital for the first time in their lives in 1963, and who were representative of cases from a large un-selected population, were examined for Schneider's first-rank symptoms. Forty-three such patients were followed-up in 1977. Using stepwise regression, it was found that Schneider's first-rank symptoms relate to outcome such that they can "explain" from 17 per cent of 26 per cent of the variance on four outcome measures. The presence of some first-rank symptoms correlated positively with good outcome, others negatively, whilst some correlated differently with different outcome measures. Thus, assessment of only the presence, absence or number of first-rank symptoms is unlikely to relate to outcome.


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