Outcome in schizophrenic and similar paranoid psychoses.

A 5-year followup study of patients with schizophrenic or paranoid psychoses was performed using standardized instruments. Less than half of the patients had a poor global outcome. Several findings from other recent outcome studies were replicated. Besides data on occupational history and psychiatric hospitalization, psychopathological characteristics assessed at discharge by psychiatrists' ratings and patients' self-ratings proved to have predictive value.