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MEDISAN
versión On-line ISSN 1029-3019
Resumen
AVILES CASTELLANOS, Grisel Alina. Characterization of patients with schizophrenia. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.5, pp.602-605. ISSN 1029-3019.
A descriptive and cross sectional study of 74 patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia, admitted in the Unit for Intervention during Crisis from "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out from November, 2012 to same month of 2013, in order to characterize them according to variables of interest. Those patients affected from 25-34 years (40.5%), female sex (60.8%), workers (39.2%), as well as the paranoid clinical form (42.0%) prevailed in the series. Sixty-two sick persons (83.8%) were readmitted. The schizophrenia constituted an important cause of admissions in this assistance center
Palabras clave : paranoid schizophrenia; hebephrenic schizophrenia; Unit for Intervention during Crisis; secondary health care.