Long-term prognosis and followup in schizophrenia.

摘要: The long-term course or natural history of schizophrenia is correlated with differing diagnostic criteria and commonly agreed upon prognostic variables. A review 38 followup studies hospitalized schizophrenics reveals that unspecified Kraepelinian-type has a much worse prognosis than atypical schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychosis, reactive other good premorbid types. Diagnoses based on longitudinal as well cross-reactional data are more predictive outcome cross-sectionally diagnoses. Drug psychosocial treatment results must be evaluated in terms variables, many which incorporated some currently employed criteria. There no firm evidence maintenance medication indicated patients. paucity long-range followups, the inadequacies assessments, disagreements limit our understanding effects drug treatment, not without dangerous neurological side