Symptomatic remission affects employment outcomes in schizophrenia patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Remission criteria were proposed by Andreasen et al. for classifying patients with schizophrenia according to the severity of psychopathology. Up to the present time, there have been no cohort studies exploring the association between remission status and employment outcomes in patients with schizophrenia. The study explored whether symptomatic remission is significantly associated with employment outcomes in a two-year longitudinal study.

Methods

All 525 stable patients with schizophrenia in the therapeutic community of a public mental hospital in Taiwan were recruited between 2013 and 2015. Employment outcomes, defined as the cumulative on-the-job duration (months/per year) and income (new Taiwan dollars, NT$/per year), were investigated at the end of 1- and 2-y

SUBMITTER: Wang SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7216656 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature