A short patient and relative education programme seems to be able to influence knowledge and some aspects of satisfaction, but does not seem to be sufficient to influence important variables such as relapse, compliance, psychopathology, insight or psychosocial functioning.
Patients experienced low QOL. Lower QOL was associated with high BMI, low ADD and smoking in first-ever diagnosed patients and with high BMI and short illness duration in long-term ill patients.
Patients with schizophrenia had significantly higher suPAR levels than healthy controls. Further studies are warranted to clarify if elevated suPAR levels are involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and/or the increased mortality found in patients with schizophrenia.
of functioning at the end of an episode, 9. less symptoms between episodes. Conclusion: The acute transient psychoses as defined in lCD-10 are good prognosis psychotic disorders differing significantly from schizophrenia. A syndrome-shift to schizophrenia during the long term course is extremely rare. The above findings support the assumption of independence of ATP from schizophrenia.
Most patients decreased or stabilized their total dose of antipsychotic medication during the study period. Many patients were subject to antipsychotic polypharmacy. The extent of participation in the lifestyle intervention program did not correlate with the changes in dosing of antipsychotic medication.
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