[The estimation of the public danger of schizophrenia patients based on epidemiological research data]

The article presents the proportion of different categories of patients with schizophrenia performing socially dangerous actions (SDA) in the total number of registered patients. It describes features of the disease, sex, age specific for clinical presentation background. Complex evaluation of factors, including premorbid of personality traits and environmental phenomena is considered to be very important because of its prognostic significance. In cases with less acute and less progressive course of the disease significance of social and psychological factors increases. Difficulties in up-to-date detection of patients, inclined to SDA, are analysed.