title: Postpsychotic state, convalescent environment, and therapeutic relationship in schizophrenic outcome.
abstract: The authors evaluated the following variables in the 2-3-year outcomes of 30 schizophrenic patients: the acute/chronic dichotomy, the presence of a postpsychotic regressive state, the quality of the convalescent environment, and the formation of a therapeutic relationship. They found that the presence of a postpsychotic regressive state was not associated with either good or poor short-term outcome; that the diagnosis of acute schizophrenia was almost invariably followed by good outcome, but a diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia had little predictive value; and that a favorable convalescent environment and the presence of a therapeutic relationship were signigicantly associated with good outcome.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003289:Convalescence; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012931:Social Environment