TY - JOUR
T1 - Decline in the severity or the incidence of schizophrenia in Japan
T2 - A survey of university students
AU - Fuse-Nagase, Yasuko
AU - Miura, Jun
AU - Namura, Ikuro
AU - Sato, Takeshi
AU - Yasumi, Katsuhiro
AU - Marutani, Toshiyuki
AU - Sugita, Yoshiro
N1 - Funding Information:
This survey was supported by a grant- in-aid of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Clinical manifestations of schizophrenia are believed to be becoming less severe in Japan, but little evidence supports this theory. We investigated the percentages of undergraduate students attending national universities in Japan who required temporary leave and who dropped out because of schizophrenia in the academic years 1986–1987, 1994–1995, and 2013–2014. The percentages of students who required temporary leave and those who dropped out because of schizophrenia significantly decreased over time. The severity of clinical manifestations of schizophrenia may have decreased, enabling more students with schizophrenia to continue their study, or the incidence of schizophrenia might have declined.
AB - Clinical manifestations of schizophrenia are believed to be becoming less severe in Japan, but little evidence supports this theory. We investigated the percentages of undergraduate students attending national universities in Japan who required temporary leave and who dropped out because of schizophrenia in the academic years 1986–1987, 1994–1995, and 2013–2014. The percentages of students who required temporary leave and those who dropped out because of schizophrenia significantly decreased over time. The severity of clinical manifestations of schizophrenia may have decreased, enabling more students with schizophrenia to continue their study, or the incidence of schizophrenia might have declined.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84988027654&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84988027654&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ajp.2016.08.024
DO - 10.1016/j.ajp.2016.08.024
M3 - Article
C2 - 27931893
AN - SCOPUS:84988027654
SN - 1876-2018
VL - 24
SP - 120
EP - 123
JO - Asian Journal of Psychiatry
JF - Asian Journal of Psychiatry
ER -
