Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2024 Jul;59(7):1279-1283. doi: 10.1007/s00127-023-02577-y. Epub 2023 Oct 17.
Little is known about the economic impact of disability grants for people living with schizophrenia in low- and middle- income countries. In this brief report, we show that receipt of disability benefits is significantly associated (β = 0.105, p < 0.0001) with increased household and personal wealth in large sample of people living with schizophrenia in South Africa (n = 1154). This study provides further support for the use of disability grants as a mechanism to protect people living with schizophrenia and their families against the economic costs associated with schizophrenia.
关于中低收入国家中精神分裂症患者残疾津贴的经济影响知之甚少。在这份简短的报告中,我们发现,在南非的一个大样本精神分裂症患者中(n=1154),领取残疾福利金与家庭和个人财富的增加显著相关(β=0.105,p<0.0001)。这项研究进一步支持了使用残疾津贴作为一种机制,以保护精神分裂症患者及其家庭免受与精神分裂症相关的经济成本的影响。