[Comparative clinical, social and work characteristics of patients with schizoaffective variants of schizophrenia].

On the basis of clinico-epidemiological, clinico-dynamic and clinico-catamnestic study of 184 patients with schizoaffective variants of schizophrenia (cyclothymia-like, affective-paranoid, hallucinatory-delirious, and with catatonic symptomatology) the authors come to the conclusion on the relative homogeneity of this cohort of patients and on the considerably frequent favourable outcomes of this disease. The variants of the disease and structure of remissions of each of the clinical variants have been compared. Assessment of inter-attack clinical characteristics and the degree of social and occupational adaptation has made it possible to divide the patients into 3 groups differing by adaptational parameters. The results obtained may be used in the development of the system of rehabilitative measures in any of the aforesaid variants of schizophrenia.