Self-Stigma in Patients with Endogenous Mental Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study.

Background: Self-stigma remains one of the most vexing issues in psychiatry. It complicates the treatment and social functioning of patients with endogenous psychiatric disorders. Identifying the specific features of self-stigma depending on the type and duration of the endogenous mental illness can help solve this problem.

[Socio-demographic and clinical-psychological characteristics of patients with residual schizophrenia and directions of their psychosocial rehabilitation].

Objective: To analyze the socio-demographic, clinical and psychological characteristics of patients with residual schizophrenia, to identify variants of residual states and to determine measures for psychosocial rehabilitation on this basis.

Material And Methods: At the time of investigation, 91 patients with the diagnosis of residual schizophrenia (F20.5xx according to ICD-10) were under dispensary supervision in the psychoneurological dispensary No.

[Innovative technology for assessing the level of compliance of mentally ill people].

Objective: To develop a technology for evaluating indicators of patient's compliance, taking into account clinical, socio-demographic, psychological characteristics of the patient and characteristics of the family environment, as well as factors of psychiatric care, based on appropriate compliance algorithms and models.

Material And Methods: The study included 107 patients (44 men and 63 women) with diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective and schizotypal disorders that met the criteria of ICD-10, as well as 105 members of their families. A set of 12 clinical and psychological questionnaires and scales was used for data collection.

[Problems in assessment of the effectiveness of psychosocial rehabilitation and treatment: area of psychosocial interventions, tools and evaluation criteria].

The literature review addresses the problems arising in assessing the effectiveness of psychosocial rehabilitation, selection of evaluation criteria and methodical tools most often used for this purpose. It is shown that for an objective assessment of the results of rehabilitation it is necessary to take into account the hierarchical structure of both the problems of evaluation and the information to be processed. This information includes both quantitative indicators (age, duration of disease, frequency of hospitalizations, results of biological study) and non-numerical (rank) indicators (severity of psychopathological symptoms, characteristics of compliance, social behavior and patient's environment).