title: Work performance of schizophrenic day boarders in an occupational therapy centre.
abstract: Performance of 129 schizophrenics attending the Occupational Therapy Ce'ntre at NIMHANS, Bangalore as day boarders has been assessed on a 5 point scale, and by Griffiths Work behaviour assessment scale and correlated with various demographic and clinical characteristics.Those unemployed earlier had significantly (P < .005) poorer work performance. Poor social support (P < .05) and presence of residual symptoms (P < .001) were also significantly related to poor work performance. Other demographic characteristics, sub-type of schizophrenia, duration of illness and age of onset of illness did not influence work performance significantly. The implication of these findings in rehabilitation of schizophrenics are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Associate professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore-560 029.
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Gopinath
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Chaturvedi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murali
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Saleem
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sarmukaddam
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Radhakrishnan