title: Community discharge of patients with schizophrenia: a Japanese experience.
abstract: In Japan, admission to a psychiatric facility for people with schizophrenia is usually for life. We developed a rehabilitation program aimed at discharging these patients into the Tokyo community. This paper describes the results for the 224 patients. Using an inpatient ward at the Tokyo Musashino Hospital, patients were enrolled in the program and subsequently discharged into the community with an assigned worker. The results indicate for the majority (79%) re-integration into the community was successful. The success of this program in a metropolitan city like Tokyo argues for the efficacy of such programs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Welfare, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan. f_noda@mail.tais.ac.jp
authors.forename: Fumitaka
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Noda
authors.forename: Campbell
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Hisako
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Terada
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Mikiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Keiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Junko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kitanaka
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Asai
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kushigami
authors.forename: Kazushi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Yosuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mantani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000359:Aftercare; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000208:ethnology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012944:Social Support; D012951:Socialization; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014041:Tokyo