The measurement of ‘social disablement’

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. Wing
Keyword(s):  
Social Disablement

Assessment of needs for care among patients with schizophrenic disorders 15 and 17 years after first onset of psychosis

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (S1) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Durk Wiersma ◽  
Fokko J. Nienhuis ◽  
Cees J. Slooff ◽  
Robert Giel ◽  
Aant De Jong
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Expected Improvement ◽  
Chronic Patients ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Disablement ◽  
First Onset

Severe and long term mental disorders, like schizophrenia, show in general a wide range of psychiatric signs and symptoms, psychological and physiological impairments and social disablement (Shepherd, 1994; Wing, 1982) reflecting a variety of mental health needs. Many studies provide only a cross-sectional view of the clinical and social problems of the patient population, for example at intake or admission to a mental hospital. Longitudinal studies following patients after discharge for some period of months or years show in general the expected improvement of functioning (e.g. Nienhuis et al., 1994), but as far as only chronic patients are concerned such a positive change is much less noted. The concept of chronicity of mental disorders would presume that after some time needs are fairly predictable and stable and do not change much over time. Our investigation on the long-term course of schizophrenia (Wiersma et al., 1996; 1997) enables us to study over a period of two years, from 15 to 17 years since first onset of psychosis, the stability or variability of needs in schizophrenic disorder. We are not aware of empirical studies on changes in needs among patients with long-term disorders.

Social Disablement among residents of Hostels for the Homeless in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2002 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni M. Lovisi ◽  
Evandro Coutinho ◽  
Anastácio Morgado ◽  
Anthony H. Mann
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Disablement

scholarly journals Evaluation of social disablement, psychiatric symptoms and autonomy in long-stay psychiatric patients

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lúcia Abelha ◽  
Manuel Desviat Muñoz ◽  
Sylvia Gonçalves ◽  
Paulo Fagundes ◽  
Denise Rebouças Barbosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Social Disablement

Socio-demographic associations with social disablement in a community sample

1983 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hurry ◽  
E. Sturt ◽  
P. Bebbington ◽  
C. Tennant
Keyword(s):  
Community Sample ◽  
Social Disablement

Schizophrenia: early warning signs

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Birchwood ◽  
Elizabeth Spencer ◽  
Dermot McGovern
Keyword(s):  
Early Warning ◽  
Relapse Prevention ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Residual Symptoms ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
Early Warning Signs ◽  
Social Disablement ◽  
Highly Correlated

Relapse in schizophrenia remains common and cannot be entirely eliminated even by the best combination of biological and psychosocial interventions (Linszen et al, 1998). Relapse prevention is crucial as each relapse may result in the growth of residual symptoms (Shepherd et al, 1989) and accelerating social disablement (Hogarty et al, 1991). Many patients feel ‘entrapped’ by their illnesses, a factor highly correlated with depression (Birchwood et al, 1993), and have expressed a strong interest in learning to recognise and prevent impending psychotic relapse.

Psychiatric Symptoms, Social Disablement and Illness Behaviour

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hurry ◽  
P. E. Bebbington ◽  
C. Tennant
Keyword(s):  
Service Use ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Psychiatric Outpatients ◽  
Clinical Disorder ◽  
Practice Group ◽  
Social Disablement ◽  
Use Of Medical Services ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper we investigate the relationship between social performance and the use of medical services, and to what extent this is independent of clinical disorder. In a sample of adults living in Camberwell, South London, social disability and clinical disorder were both predictive of service use. Those subjects who were admitted to psychiatric day-patient or inpatient facilities were found to show the highest levels of both types of impairment, followed by psychiatric outpatients. People who had seen their general practitioner because of their ‘nerves’ were less impaired than those in touch with the specialist psychiatric services but had significantly poorer social performance and a higher level of clinical disorder than people not in contact with medical services at all. When the severity of clinical disorder was controlled, however, levels of social performance no longer discriminated between the different groups of service users, except that psychiatric outpatients remained significantly more socially disabled than the general practice group.

The Social Disablement of Men in Hostels for Homeless People II. a Comparison with Patients from Long-stay Wards

1995 ◽  
Vol 166 (6) ◽  
pp. 809-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Abdul Hamid ◽  
Til Wykes ◽  
Stephen Stansfeld
Keyword(s):  
Small Proportion ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
Homeless Men ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Disablement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chronic Psychiatric Patients

BackgroundSome authors have argued that hostels for homeless people are increasingly taking over the role of psychiatric long-stay wards, and that this creates a problem. We set out to test this hypothesis.MethodThe social disablement of a random sample of 101 homeless men, described in Part 1, was compared with that of a sample of 66 psychiatric patients from a long-stay ward.ResultsThe study sample rated significantly lower for social disablement than the long-stay ward sample. Thirteen subjects of the hostel sample had psychotic social behaviour problems. These had no history of being long-stay psychiatric patients.ConclusionsThe hostel sample differ significantly in their social disablement from the chronic psychiatric patients. There is a small proportion of severely disturbed residents who might have been over-represented in previous non-random surveys.

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