[Social functioning of schizophrenic patients after 15 years from the first hospitalization (Part II -- the evaluation of needs for community care)].

The description of the studied group was given in the first part of the paper. Some of the factors having been present at the first hospitalization were found to be important for the patients' functioning 15 years later. On the basis of the collected regarding data 85 patients, significant coincidence has been found between more intensive use of extramural services, more frequent and longer hospitalizations, and worse social functioning during 15 years' period in individual cases. The conclusion has been assumed that there exists obvious need for more intensive community care for such patients. On the basis of 0.15% morbidity index the number of schizophrenics needing social support, sheltered accommodation and sheltered working conditions were estimated. According to the Mental Health Care Act of 1994 such services have to be organized within social care system.