objective: psychiatric hospitalization of patients imposes heavy burdens on caregivers, but little is known about this issue in iran. the present cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the risk factors associated with psychiatric hospitalization of patients with schizophrenia who were the regular clients for the educational programs of the iranian society for supporting individuals with sch...

objective: non-compliance is one of the major problems in treatment of patients with schizophrenia. it is also the most significant risk factor for relapse and re-hospitalization. previous studies showed that 25-70% of all patients with schizophrenia have negative attitudes to drugs. therefore, the present study aimed to identify the relationship between drug attitude and discharge and the rate...

Abstract Objective The present study investigated whether clinical variables related to illness onset (age at symptom onset, diagnosis, first psychiatric hospitalization) predict deviation from expected cognitive ability. Additionally, we examined the potential moderating effect of psychosis groups (“biotypes”). Method Cognitive ability was predicted based on demographic and estimated premorbid...

objective: providing treatment and educational services for consumers and their caregivers is more effective if those services are implemented based on their characteristics and differences. to partly address this objective, the present study aimed to describe and compare characteristics and differences of chronic hospitalized and household maintained consumers and their caregivers who were reg...

AIM Schizophrenia is a disorder with different outcomes. Besides the positive and negative symptoms, cognitive impairment is an important core feature of schizophrenia and often pre-dates the disorder. Cognition has consistently been related to outcome in schizophrenia. Given this finding and the fact that diagnosing and treating schizophrenia as early as possible has better outcome chances, th...

The frequency and length of admissions over 50 years were analyzed in a sample of 10.268 schizophrenic patients according to ICD-10 subtypes of schizophrenia. The lowest yearly hospitalization frequencies during the risk period were observed in simple, catatonic, unspecified and hebephrenic schizophrenia. When the total sample was analyzed, unspecified schizophrenia exhibited a significantly hi...

OBJECTIVE Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a complex, chronic disease requiring active self-management and coordinated care. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between schizophrenia and risk of preventable, acute DM complications. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS With the use of administrative data, a retrospective study assessed acute DM complications (emergency department [ED] visits or hosp...

Introduction Home Treatment (HT) teams are among the better-studied options to reduce admission at hospital, having been described as an alternative hospitalization in patients with schizophrenia. There may be certain risk factors which has already such living alone (Dean and Gadd, BMJ, 1990; 301, 1021–1023; Schnyder et al., Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1999; 99, 179–187), lack of awareness illness, ...

BACKGROUND Assessment of psychosocial functioning in people with schizophrenia is important. The Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF-F) scale represents a widely applied, easy, and quick tool, but its validity and reliability have been debated. The aim was to investigate whether GAF-F scores are associated with other indicators of functioning, severity, and hospitalization. METHODS A Danish...

BACKGROUND Persons with schizophrenia may face barriers to high quality primary care due to communication difficulties, cognitive impairment, lack of social support, and fragmentation of healthcare delivery services. As a result, this group may be at high risk for ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) hospitalizations, defined as hospitalizations potentially preventable by timely primary care. The go...