Deinstitutionalization of Long-Stay Patients with Schizophrenia: The 2-Year Social and Clinical Outcome of a Comprehensive Intervention Program in Japan

Abstract

Careful planning that minimized social and clinical dislocation may have contributed to the successful transition from mental hospital to community facility assessed in this study. Patients with a long history of illness showed favourable outcomes with little clinical deterioration and various improvements in their psychiatric symptoms and social functioning.