title: The effects of social changes in chronic schizophrenia: a study of forty patients transferred from hospital to residential home.
abstract: Various clinical and social measures were applied to forty long-stay schizophrenic patients before and after transfer from hospital to a residential home and similarly to twenty-five patients retained in hospital. The results are used to test specific hypotheses concerning the relationship between social changes and clinical state in chronic schizophrenia.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012112:Residential Facilities; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D012922:Social Change; D012931:Social Environment; D012951:Socialization