A Comparative Study of Home Treatment and Hospital Care in the Treatment of Schizophrenic and Paranoid Psychotic Patients

Outcome studies in mental hospitals: A review.

“…However, some of those kept at home showed considerable difficulty in functioning adequately in terms of symptomatology and instrumental role performance. Nevertheless, home-care patients were functioning as well or better than hospital controls (see also Niskanen & Pihkanen, 1971). A 5-year follow-up of Pasamanick's study (Davis et al, 1972) showed that an erosion of the initial differences had taken place, so that no differences in terms of rehospitalization or psychosocial functioning could be found between groups.…”

Sex Differences in Completed Suicide by Schizophrenic Patients: A Meta‐Analysis

“…The majority of articles reporting follow‐ups of schizophrenic patients, some of whom completed suicide, did not report the deaths by sex (e.g., Jacobson, 1967; Niskanen & Pihkanen, 1971), a surprising omission given that the sex difference in rates of completed suicide is well known and well documented. Two studies were not used (Kendler, 1986; Rasanen, Tiihonen, Isohanni, Moring, & Koiranen, 1998) since these were cohort studies (of military inductees and births, respectively) and the researchers did not ascertain the point at which the subjects were diagnosed with schizophrenia.…”