[Therapeutic education for patients with schizophrenia]

Schizophrenia is a chronic and complex mental illness with a multifactorial aetiology, resulting from the interaction between neurobiological and environmental factors. Affecting approximately 1% of the world's population, it generally appears slowly and progressively in subjects aged 15 to 25 years. The polymorphic symptomatology is a source of disability and often of social maladjustment, which implies the implementation, if possible at an early stage, of multi-axis support in order to meet the specific needs of these patients and their families. Therapeutic patient education is one of the targeted interventions that have proven to be effective in improving the quality of life and functional prognosis of the subjects with schizophrenic disorders.