SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS CONCERNING CLINICO-SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA (BASE ON INQUIRY AMONG PSYCHIATRISTS)
Objective: exploring the beliefs of psychiatrists about factors contributing to changes in clinico-social characteristics of schizophrenia. The investigation was implemented at the Chair of Psychiatry and Narcology of the Mechnikov North-West State Medical University. Using a specially developed form, 254 psychiatrists on post-graduate training courses were offered to evaluate the factors that have led to changes in clinico-dynamic parameters of schizophrenia in recent decades. The results delivered four major factors that obviously influenced the pathomorphosis of schizophrenia, specifically, higher rate of intercurrent disorders, alcohol abuse, new atypical antipsychotics, policy change in psychiatry. Subjective beliefs of psychiatrists concerning clinico-social characteristics of schizophrenia may be considered as an additional factor to be taken into regard in planning psychiatric care and in post-graduate psychiatric training.