The connection between labour integration and prognosis: An 8-year follow-up study

This study reflects the labour-situation of 67 DSM-III schizophrenic outpat ients in an 8-year follow-up. About 50% of the patients had less than 20 ho urs of work a week on the average - most of them in work therapy or shelter ed work-places. Many of them changed their location of work. Patients with an initially good prognosis (MPS) had a good outcome, regardless if they ha d a normal job and worked about 30 hours a week or worked about 20 hours in a sheltered place. For patients with a poor prognosis even the integration in a sheltered working place was difficult.