On Schizophrenic Disease Which Showed Very Good Prognosis : Report of Two Cases

An investigation into various factoes was made for a total of 239 patients out of 1126 who had been discharged from the Psychiatric Ward of the Kitsunan Hospital in five years. The patients studied were readmitted due to drug deviation and the subsequent recurrance of symptoms being treated. Inclusive of chronic alcoholics readmitted (a total of 26), the time required from discharge to readmission averaged 75 days. For patients with schizophrenia, affective disorder and atypical psychosis, exclusive of chronic alcoholics, the figure is about 90 days. From this , we can surmise that drug deviation occurs a litlle earlier than tha period. The possibility of readmission was the highest with chronic aocoholism (86.7%), followed by mental weajness (30.9%), and atypical psychosis (286%). Schizophrenia and affective disorder showed a readmission rate of about 18 percent. The younger the age, the higher the possibility of readmission, and the possibility of readmission is higher in male patients (23.3%) than in females (17.0%). The more kinds of drugs administered, and the greater the number of daily doses, the more irregularly the patients tended to take the drug. It was made clear that the presence of adequate family members protecting and supercising a patients in the home could serve as a major factor in preventinf drug deviation.