[Favorable outcome of recurrent schizophrenia]

The work was performed on a material of a non-randomized group of patients with attack-like schizophrenia registered (January 1976) at the psychoneurological dispensary of one of the districts of Moscow. Using the method of a clinico-epidemiological catamnesis as well as a definite method of determining the arrest of the process of attack formation in a group of patients, 641 patients could be distinguished. The condition of those patients was qualified as "outcome", "++post-morbid". The rate of such cases in the whole patients' group amounted to 62.5%. The data on the clinical structure of the outcomes, including productive psychopathological and negative symptomatology as well as the level of social and work adaptation of the patients enabled one to distinguish groups with a favourable outcome (471 cases) and unfavourable outcome (170 cases), which accounted for 46.0 and 16.6% of the entire non-randomized group of patients. Therefore, based on the populational regularities of the course of attack-like schizophrenia the authors succeeded in demonstrating a possibility of arresting the process of attack formation at any disease stage, to determine the rate of such cases in the patients' population as well as to objectively prove the domination of a favourable variant of outcome of the morbid process.