Singer J E, Grob M C
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1975 Nov;26(11):745-8. doi: 10.1176/ps.26.11.745.
A follow-up study was made of 43 short-term and 42 long-term ex-patients 18 months after their discharge from a private psychiatric hospital. The short-term sample was different from the long-term sample on many preadmission and hospitalization variables, but it was much less different on the follow-up variables. Although most ex-patients in both samples were functioning well at follow-up, the long-term sample was doing somewhat better in all areas, according to both the former patients and their nearest relatives. Differences between the improvement of those in the short- and long-term sample increased when tested by diagnosis; long-term schizophrenic patients improved the most.
对一家私立精神病院出院18个月后的43名短期和42名长期出院患者进行了跟踪研究。短期样本在入院前和住院期间的许多变量上与长期样本不同，但在随访变量上差异要小得多。尽管两个样本中的大多数出院患者在随访时功能良好，但根据患者本人及其近亲的说法，长期样本在所有方面都表现得稍好一些。按诊断进行测试时，短期和长期样本中患者改善情况的差异增大；长期精神分裂症患者改善最大。
