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Chronic Schizophrenic Patients in the Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. J. Cheadle ,
H. L. Freeman  and
J. Korer
A. J. Cheadle
Affiliation:
Department of Nursing, University of Manchester, M13 9PT
H. L. Freeman
Affiliation:
Salford Area Health Authority (Teaching), Hope Hospital, Salford, M6 8HD
J. Korer
Affiliation:
Salford Area Health Authority (Teaching), Prestwich Hospital, Manchester M25 7BL
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Summary

A sample of 190 patients, diagnosed as schizophrenic by the same psychiatrist, have been surveyed in an urban community and their clinical and social status assessed. Compared to the local population as a whole, a significantly greater proportion of the men had never married, and although the women had married at approximately the same rate as those in the general population, 25 per cent of them had been divorced by the time of the interview. Assessments of the subjects' clinical condition by the Present State Examination were analysed into four groups of syndromes. Only 27 patients showed schizophrenic or paranoid symptoms, whereas neurotic symptoms were not only prevalent but seemed to cause most of the reported personal problems. Twenty-eight patients were free of symptoms at the time of interview. The great majority of the sample (72 per cent) were being maintained on long-acting neuroleptics. These data will form the baseline to assess a monitoring system, designed to keep the local psychiatric services in touch with schizophrenic patients who might otherwise drop out of treatment.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 132 , Issue 3 , March 1978 , pp. 221 - 227
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978 

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