Schizophrenia and quality of life: how important are symptoms and functioning?

Objective: the relationship between Quality of life (QoL) and global functioning and symptoms in outpatients with Schizophrenia

Method: The study was carried out on the outpatients with schizophrenia attending a Community Mental Health Centre in 2008. Each patient completed the WHO QoL Instrument - Brief and was administered the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-24 to assess psychiatric symptoms and the VADO Personal and social Functioning Scale to assess the level of functioning.

Results: subjects showed an intermediate satisfaction on the overall QoL and health; these data can be juxtaposed to the national standard sample rates.

Childhood onset diagnoses in a case series of teens at clinical high risk for psychosis.

Unlabelled: REASONS: Schizophrenia is typically an adult neurodevelopmental disorder that has its antecedents in childhood and adolescence. Little is known about disorders "usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood and adolescence" (e.g.