Chronic Hospitalized and Household Maintained Consumers; Characteristics and Differences Among Referees to the Iranian Society Supporting Individuals With Schizophrenia

Abstract

Objective: Providing treatment and educational services for consumers and their caregivers is more effective if those services are implemented based on their characteristics and differences. To partly address this objective, the present study aimed to describe and compare characteristics and differences of chronic hospitalized and household maintained consumers and their caregivers who were regular users of educational and rehabilitation programs of the Iranian Society Supporting Individuals with Schizophrenia (ISSIS) in Tehran, Iran.