A cross-sectional study to investigate current social adjustment of offspring of patients with schizophrenia.

Objective: To investigate the impact of parental disorder in the life of adult offspring by evaluating education, current employment and marital status of a sample of offspring of patients with schizophrenia and comparing findings with population rates.

Methods: A sample of 489 patients with DSM-IV diagnoses of schizophrenia was identified in the public outpatient mental health services of the city of Cuiabá, Brazil. Of these patients, 294 had children, and a total of 828 offspring were identified.

Fertility and fecundity of an outpatient sample with schizophrenia.

Objective: To determine reproductive rates among patients with schizophrenia who attended the outpatient clinic at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo.

Method: All patients with schizophrenia completed a semi-standardized questionnaire, and data from the Brazilian census was used for comparing population rates.

Results: 167 patients completed the questionnaires and of these 33 (19.