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The effects of social changes in chronic schizophrenia: a study of forty patients transferred from hospital to residential home

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

I. G. Pryce
I. G. Pryce*
Affiliation:
Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr I. G. Pryce, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff.
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Synopsis

Various clinical and social measures were applied to forty long-stay schizophrenic patients before and after transfer from hospital to a residential home and similarly to twenty-five patients retained in hospital. The results are used to test specific hypotheses concerning the relationship between social changes and clinical state in chronic schizophrenia.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 127 - 139
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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