Worse Comes to Worst in Schizophrenia: Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia Patients Show Greater Impairment in Functional Milestones of Everyday Living Compared to Other Psychiatric Disabling Conditions
Abstract:IntroductionSchizophrenia patients experience severe difficulties in a range of common activities, defined 'functional milestones' (i.e. marriage, employment, self-supported living).Objectives/AimsThis study investigated the impairment in functional milestones in treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS), compared to other severe disabling psychiatric conditions. Moreover, we evaluated whether multiple clinical and psychopathological features may be predictors of outcome in such functional milestones.Methods157 … Show more
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