title: [The main results of the experiment regarding the changes in the principles of follow-up of patients with mental disorders].
abstract: In 1988--1989 an organizational experiment was carried out in Moscow, Leningrad, in the Latvian SSR, the Altai territory and in the Ivanovo region. Apart from the conventional follow-up of patients with mental diseases, the counselling form of the follow-up was established in the experimental territories. In accordance with this new principle, the treatment and counselling assistance to persons with mental disorders was rendered only after seeing a doctor. The main results of the experiment are as follows: 1) the follow-up group of patients noticeably diminished at the expense of a decrease of the number of persons taken under the follow-up studies as well as at the expense of more rapid removal of the patients from the register including their active transfer to the patients' group given medical advice; 2) in the follow-up group structure, there was an increase in the number of patients with psychotic disorders and mental retardation and a noticeable lowering of the number of patients with non-psychotic disorders; 3) the group of patients to be given medical advice dramatically increased in the experimental territories, while the number of patients suffering from non-psychotic disorders accounted among them for 80-85%. On the whole the experiment provided evidence in favour of the opportuneness and soundness of introduction into psychiatric practice of the two follow-up types: as far as patients with grave mental disorders and deep social decompensation are concerned, they should be followed up over time by means of conventional methods; as to patients with milder mental disorders, the counselling form of the follow-up is quite sufficient, provided they adapt themselves socially or are well protected (in respect to children and retired persons).
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Churkin
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Tvorogova
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007844:Latvia / Q000453:epidemiology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Osnovnye rezul'taty éksperimenta po izmeneniiu printsipov dinamicheskogo nabliudeniia za litsami s psikhicheskimi rasstroĭstvami.