[Prognosis in the social and occupational adaptation of patients with slowly progressive schizophrenia].

A series of 190 patients with slowly progressive schizophrenia have been examined with the aim of studying the prognosis of their social and occupational adaptation. The authors have analyzed the dynamics of the mental status and adaptation over years. Criteria of the prognosis of social and occupational adaptation have been identified. The adaptive behaviour and prognosis in patients with slowly progressive schizophrenia have been found to depend on the type of the personality abnormality in the premorbid period, age at the disease onset, its pattern, and clinical characteristics of the active period of the disease.