Schizophrenia – Epidemiology and Burden

The World Health Organization identified schizophrenia as 1 of the 20 leading causes of disability in the world in 2004.^{[The global burden of disease, 2004]}

The same report estimated that the worldwide prevalence was more than 21 million people in 2016.^{[WHO, 2016]}

Estimat…

Key message: Schizophrenia negatively impacts many different aspects of the lives of both patients and their caregivers (e.g. economic, physical health, social aspects).

Background

• A community survey that included 697 caregivers and 439 patients with schizophrenia ident…

Key message: Decreases in the quality of life of caregivers may be associated with the burden of being a caregiver, lack of social support, course of the disease, and problems with family relationships.

Background^{[Caqueo-Urízar et al., 2009]}

• Literature review of 37 studi…

Key message: Inability of patients to function in everyday settings contributes to the high cost of schizophrenia (both direct costs from caring for patients, and indirect costs from lost employment).

Background

• Schizophrenia causes a high degree of disability. In the g…

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The 1-year prevalence of schizophrenia in the United States was estimated to be 1.1% of the adult population.^{[Regier et al., 1993]}

37 Population-based studies from 25 countries that reported primary data on deaths in people with schizophrenia were examined.^{[Saha et al., 2…}

Taiwan: A random population of subjects from the National Health Insurance database was used to identify members with ≥1 claim for a principal diagnosis of schizophrenia.^{[Chien et al., 2004]}

China: A random population of subjects from Xinjin County were interviewed face t…

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Vanasse and colleagues examined the lifetime prevalence of patients with schizophrenia in Quebec from 1996 to 2006 using public health plan databases. Patients were identified with a hospital discharge or physician claim for schizophrenia.^{[Vanasse et al., 2012]}

Goldner et…