Life events and schizophrenia

ABSTRACT

Present paper describes the findings of a study which was carried out to determine the frequency of adverse life events in a group of seventy five Schizophrenic patients. Life event histories of these patients for the six months period before onset or relapse of their illness were compared with control subjects using Bedford's Life Events and Difficulties Schedule, The Schizophrenic patients reported significantly more life events with suggestive trends for the influence of gender and marital status on the frequency of life events