The Vermont longitudinal study of persons with severe mental illness, I: Methodology, study sample, and overall status 32 years later
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (6), 718-726
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.6.718
Abstract
The authors report the lastest findings from a 32-year longitudinal study of 269 back-ward patients form Vermont State Hospital. This intact cohort participated in a comprehensive rehabilitation program and was released to the community in a planned deinstitutionalization effort during the mid-1950s. At this 10-year follow-up mark, 70% of these patients remained out of the hospital but many were socially isolated and many were recidivists. Twenty to 25 years after their index release, 262 of these subjects were blindly assessed with structured and reliable protocols. One-half to two-thirds of them had achieved considerable improvement or recovery, which corroborates recent findings from Europe and elsewhere.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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