PMID- 31684714
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20200929
IS  - 1738-3684 (Print)
IS  - 1976-3026 (Electronic)
IS  - 1738-3684 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 11
DP  - 2019 Nov
TI  - The Factors Affecting the Relationship between Remission Status and Employment in 
      Chronic Schizophrenia Patients.
PG  - 860-867
LID - 10.30773/pi.2019.0087 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: Symptomatic remission have substantial effects in long-term 
      schizophrenia outcome, but exact determinants of the employment. In this study, 
      the relationship between employment and symptomatic remission in chronic 
      schizophrenia patients and other factors related to employment were investigated. 
      METHODS: 100 patients interviewed were evaluated by the Positive and Negative 
      Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Functional Recovery Scale in Schizophrenia (FROGS), 
      Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), Quality of Life Scale (QoL) and 
      Subjective Recovery Assessment Scale (SubRAS). Sociodemographic variables, 
      clinical features, antipsychotic dose and past working history obtained from 
      patient interviews were investigated. RESULTS: The patients of 40% who 
      participate in the study were symptomatic remission, but only 53.5% of these 
      patients weren't employed. Young age, especially, -regardless of the onset of 
      illness- working a job in the past, low and moderate use CPED (equivalent doses 
      according to chlorpromazine), shorter disease duration, symptomatic remission was 
      found to be closely related to employment. While QoL, FROGS, GAF, and SubRAS 
      total scores of employment group were higher than the unemployment group, PANSS 
      total scores in the unemployment group were higher than that of the employment 
      group. There was a high correlation between the scales and employment status. 
      CONCLUSION: Employment status was closely related with the remission status. This 
      study supports that symptomatic remission alone is not decisive for employment. 
      It was found that younger age, past working history (before or after the 
      disease), low and intermediate CPED antipsychotic use and shorter duration of 
      disease were closely related to employment with symptomatic remission.
FAU - Erim, Burcu Rahsan
AU  - Erim BR
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal 
      University, Bolu, Turkey.
FAU - Boztas, Hamid
AU  - Boztas H
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal 
      University, Bolu, Turkey.
FAU - Yildiz, Mustafa
AU  - Yildiz M
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, 
      Turkey.
FAU - Uygun, Ersin
AU  - Uygun E
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatric 
      and Neurological Diseases University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20191106
PL  - Korea (South)
TA  - Psychiatry Investig
JT  - Psychiatry investigation
JID - 101242994
PMC - PMC6877458
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Employment
OT  - Remission
OT  - Schizophrenia
COIS- The authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
EDAT- 2019/11/07 06:00
MHDA- 2019/11/07 06:01
PMCR- 2019/11/01
CRDT- 2019/11/06 06:00
PHST- 2019/07/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/08/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/11/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/11/07 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/11/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - pi.2019.0087 [pii]
AID - pi-2019-0087 [pii]
AID - 10.30773/pi.2019.0087 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychiatry Investig. 2019 Nov;16(11):860-867. doi: 10.30773/pi.2019.0087. Epub 
      2019 Nov 6.