[Short-term prognosis of schizophrenia in developed and developing countries. WHO international study program].
Two years of the catamnestic study of primary schizophrenia in a number of developed and underdeveloped countries using a common technique yielded a conclusion of likehood in short-term prognosis of the disease manifested in common types of its course. Nevertheless, a range of parameters reflecting clinical and social characteristics taken into account, the prognosis proved more benign in the developing countries. In discussion the possible explanation implying an increased rate of acute manifestations of schizophrenia in developing countries is rejected, for the benign prognosis of the disease takes shape in any type of the debute, regardless of its acuteness. The role of socio-cultural factors is assumed to be most pronounced in the above prognostic divergences.
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D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003906:Developing Countries; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D011379:Prognosis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000209:etiology*; D012931:Social Environment; D013997:Time Factors; D014944:World Health Organization
Kratkosrochnyĭ prognoz shizofrenii v razvitykh i razvivaiushchikh- sia stranakh. Mezhnarodnoie issledovanie po programme VOZ.