PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL GROUPS AMONG SCHIZOPHRE NIC-PATIENTS - INFLUENCE ONKNOWLEDGE AND COMPLIANCE - RESULTS OF THE MUNICH PIP STUDY

Out of 236 schizophrenic patients undergoing inpatient care 125 were r andomly selected and given short-term psychoeducational therapy. The o ther 111 received routine treatment. The verum patients showed a signi ficant increase of knowledge and assessed the one-year relapse risk wi thout neuroleptics correctly in a larger percentage than before. 41% g ave correct answers in contrast to initially 29%, whereas in the contr ol group during the same time period the rate of correct answers fell from 21% to 4%. These differing sensibility concerning the relapse ris k correlated with the compliance of the patients. Accordingly the rate of readmissions was 21% in the verum group and 38% in the control gro up.