[Social functioning of schizophrenia patients without working capability]

The social functioning is an important criteria for evaluation when the decision about guardianship has to be made. Therefore, we investigated the differences in social functioning of persons under guardianship in comparison with persons without guardianship. Examinees (N=123) with diagnosed schizophrenia, accommodated at a social care institution for mentally ill persons, participated in the study. Adaptive function scale has been used for the evaluation of social functioning. The results were processed by statistic methods using SPSS and following methods have been used for statistics: descriptive analysis, regression analysis and group centroids. The results didn't show the statistically significant differences in social functioning between two groups of examinees. Also, there was no statistical significant difference in relation to the duration of illness, age and education. The results indicate the necessarily of taking into consideration the some other dimensions important for evaluation of mental capacity, especially when the decision about guardianship has to be made.