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Schizophrenia across the world: outcome and recovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Aleksandar Janca  and
Sivasankaran Balaratnasingam
Aleksandar Janca
Affiliation:
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, email aleksandar.janca@uwa.edu.au
Sivasankaran Balaratnasingam
Affiliation:
School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, email aleksandar.janca@uwa.edu.au Kimberley Mental Health and Drug Service, Broome, Australia
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The International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia (IPSS) was a seminal, ground-breaking study that revealed important information regarding schizophrenia on a global scale. Perhaps the most interesting and controversial finding was that for all outcome variables considered, patients suffering from schizophrenia in Nigeria and India (‘developing countries’) tended to ‘recover’ better than patients in the other six sites. However, in recent times, this finding has been repeatedly challenged. The renewed debate led to a vigorous rebuttal by some of the original IPSS study authors. In an increasingly globalised world, the IPSS stands as a reminder of the importance of the cultural determinants of recovery from schizophrenia.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 2012 , pp. 9 - 11
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