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Five-year Outcome and Prognosis in Schizophrenia: A Report from the London Field Research Centre of the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. Prudo  and
H. Munroe Blum
R. Prudo*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University Medical Centre
H. Munroe Blum
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University Medical Centre
*
∗Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University Medical Centre, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
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Abstract

A sample of 100 schizophrenic patients admitted to London area psychiatric hospitals were examined as part of the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia. Clinical and social outcome were variable. At 5-year follow-up, 49% had good symptomatic outcome and 42%, good social outcome. Poor social functioning at inclusion was predictive of poor symptomatic outcome. Illness history (IH), occupational functioning (OF), social relationship functioning (SRF), negative and non-specific symptoms (NNS) at initial evaluation, and their interaction with sex and race accounted for 32% of the 5-year symptomatic outcome variance (n = 84; F=3.48; P<0.001). OF, SRF, housing status, NNS and their interaction with sex, race and age accounted for 47% of the social outcome variance (n = 62; F=2.62; P<0.007).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 150 , Issue 3 , March 1987 , pp. 345 - 354
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Copyright © 1987 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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