[Family status of patients with paranoid schizophrenia with different degrees of progression]

The marital status of patients with continuously progressive paranoid schizophrenia in favourable and unfavourable variants of its course was studied. Both the presence of a psychic disease and the nature of its course were shown to have a significant impact on the marital status of patients and the stability of their marriages. The proportion of infertile women with both variants of the disease course was found to be considerably higher than in the general population. Furthermore, both groups under study exhibited a shift of the age at the first birth toward a younger age as well as a significant decrease in the number of repeated births as compared to the population.