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Changes in Ward Behaviour of Severely Disabled Schizophrenic Patients

A Four Years' Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. Y. Ekdawi
M. Y. Ekdawi*
Affiliation:
Netherne Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey
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The effects of institutional environment have been recognized as constituting a major influence on the picture presented by chronic schizophrenic patients. These effects, and measures to mitigate them, have been described by May (1956), Freeman et al. (1958), Barton (1959) and others, and a review of the literature was made by Wing (1962). Many of these studies have suffered from the disadvantages that the degree of the patients' disability was not directly measured, and that the majority were not followed up over a reasonable period of time. This paper examines the results of environmental modification on a ward of severely disabled chronic schizophrenic patients over a period of four years. It also attempts to assess the effects of phenothiazine treatment on the behaviour of these patients.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 484 , March 1966 , pp. 265 - 267
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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