| Abstract: | The results of a survey performed on a specific date and an analysis of the discharge files are used as a starting point to discuss the large proportion of schizophrenics among the patients receiving ward treatment at hospitals. Many of these are chronic, long-term patients whose chances of being discharged decrease with increasing duration of hospitalisation. In contrast, instances of hospitalisation of acute schizophrenia cases in the region concerned has decreased considerably during the past 20 years as a result of the more consistent use of psychopharmaceutics and improved dispensary treatment. These modern forms of therapy can only yield optimal results, however, if all those concerned with rehabilitation show a good portion of sociopsychiatric involvement and nonmedical institutions also help with the therapy scheme. |
