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[Etiology of schizophrenia from the viewpoint of the patient]
A Holzinger1, P Müller, S Priebe
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Universität Leipzig.
Objective:
According to a quantitative study on causal beliefs patients with functional psychoses favour psychosocial over biological explanations. They also tend to endorse a multicausal concept. The aim of this study is to try to replicate these findings using semiqualitative methods.
Methods:
Problem-centered interviews were conducted with 78 schizophrenic patients consecutively discharged from inpatient or dayhospital treatment.
Results:
As in the previous study, patients provided more frequently psychosocial explanations. Biological causes were relatively rarely mentioned--mostly in response to suggestions of the interviewer. In addition, they were rather brief and not very elaborated. By contrast to the previous study, hardly any indications for a multicausal concept could be observed.
Discussion:
Patients' beliefs are contrasted with the results of psychiatric research on the causes of schizophrenia.
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