Social Adaptation of Patients with Paranoid Schizophrenia

Abstract

In psychiatry over the past decades, there has been a surge of interest in the social aspects of the lives of mentally ill patients, including as a result of the provision of psychiatric care from hospital to out-of-hospital levels. In this regard, the issues of social functioning of mentally ill people, their social competence, and ability to live independently have acquired particular importance. Over the past years, schizophrenia has remained the most mysterious and, at the same time, the most widely diagnosed psychiatric disease, regardless of the population and diagnostic systems used. The prevalence of schizophrenia in the world is estimated at 0.8-1%, the incidence is 15 per 100,000 population. The widespread prevalence of schizophrenia throughout the world suggests a genetic basis for the disease, which contradicts the view that it is a "new disease", and most researchers believe that schizophrenia existed long before its first detailed descriptions in the early 19th century.