[Criteria for the clinical prognosis of slowly-progressive schizophrenia in the very early and late stages of the disease (according to the results of a clinico-epidemiologic study].

In order to determine the criteria of the clinical prognosis at the initial and long-term stages of the disease, the author conducted a clinico-epidemiological study of 156 patients with at least 10-year history of slowly progressive schizophrenia who had fallen ill at the age of 10-20 years. The criteria of the clinical prognosis have been identified, both common and typical of the immediate and long-term stages of the disease. The age factor is a significant criterion of the prognosis of initial manifestations of the clinical picture in patients with slowly progressive schizophrenia. The use of the elaborated criteria of the clinical prognosis with regard to the range and time course of psychopathological manifestations at different stages of the disease will make it possible to conduct rehabilitative measures more effectively and adequately, which will contribute to increasing the number of patients having a socially useful employment.