Naslov
Working status and obligatory neuroleptic therapy after the first psychotic onset in paranoid schizophrenic patients

Autori
Pavlović, Eduard

Izvornik
Acta Facultatis Medicae Fluminensis (0065-1206) 21 (1996), 2; 91-95

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
working status; neuroleptic therapy; first psychotic onset; paranoid schizophrenia

Sažetak
Clinical psychiatrists think that the neuroleptic treatment for the duration of two years should be necessary after the first schizophrenic or schizotypical attack or psychotic disorder in human communication. Considering the importance of work and the multirelational dimension of work the employed patients, those who were employed from time to time and those who were employed for a derminate period of time, as well as unemployed men and women were observed and studied. They were treated at the Department of Psychiatry in Rijeka from 1989 till 1990 for the first time. They suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and from simple or ordinary paranoid status as non.schizophrenic psychosis and they were treated at the out-patient clinic from 1989 till 1992. The results revealed that 50% of the patients suffering from paranoid schizophrenia continued the obligatory neuroleptic out-patient treatment for two years, and only 21% of the patients treated for simple or ordinary paranoid status continued the treatment. This study showed that only the unemployed paranoid schizophrenic patients (they were mostly men) „endured“ the complete obligatory neuroleptic treatment. This group of unemployed patients was the only one that had a constant therapy with Leponex (clozapine).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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