Schizophrenia India Hospitals Costs

Find the Hospitals in India in the following Link.

http://yellowpages.sulekha.com/schizophrenia-treatment-centers_contacts

Forums for Schizophrenia in India.

http://www.schizophrenia.com:8080/jiveforums/index.jspa

Some Statistics.

Course of Schizophrenia.

• Early intervention and early use of new medications lead to better medical outcomes for the individual
• The earlier someone with schizophrenia is diagnosed and stabilized on treatment, the better the long-term prognosis for their illness
• Teen suicide is a growing problem — and teens with schizophrenia have approximately a 50% risk of attempted suicide
• In rare instances, children as young as five can develop schizophrenia.

Anti-psychotic medications are the generally recommended treatment for schizophrenia. If medication for schizophrenia is discontinued, the relapse rate is about 80 percent within 2 years. With continued drug treatment, only about 40 percent of recovered patients will suffer relapses.( Source: NIMH)

Wide variation occurs in the course of schizophrenia. Some people have psychotic episodes of illness lasting weeks or months with full remission of their symptoms between each episode; others have a fluctuating course in which symptoms are continuous but rise and fall in intensity; others have relatively little variation in the symptoms of their illness over time. At one end of the spectrum, the person has a single psychotic episode of schizophrenia followed by complete recovery; at the other end of the spectrum is a course in which the illness never abates and debilitating effects increase. (source: Openthedoors). Recent research increasingly shows that the disease process of schizophrenia gradually and significantly damages the brain of the person, and that earlier treatments (medications and other therapies) seem to result in less damage over time.

Therefore, the approximate number of people in the United States suffering from:

• Schizophrenia: Over 2.2 million people
• Multiple Sclerosis: 400,000 people
• Insulin-dependent Diabetes: 350,000 people
• Muscular Dystrophy: 35,000 people

The Course of Schizophrenia

• Early intervention and early use of new medications lead to better medical outcomes for the individual
• The earlier someone with schizophrenia is diagnosed and stabilized on treatment, the better the long-term prognosis for their illness
• Teen suicide is a growing problem — and teens with schizophrenia have approximately a 50% risk of attempted suicide
• In rare instances, children as young as five can develop schizophrenia.

Anti-psychotic medications are the generally recommended treatment for schizophrenia. If medication for schizophrenia is discontinued, the relapse rate is about 80 percent within 2 years. With continued drug treatment, only about 40 percent of recovered patients will suffer relapses.( Source: NIMH)

Wide variation occurs in the course of schizophrenia. Some people have psychotic episodes of illness lasting weeks or months with full remission of their symptoms between each episode; others have a fluctuating course in which symptoms are continuous but rise and fall in intensity; others have relatively little variation in the symptoms of their illness over time. At one end of the spectrum, the person has a single psychotic episode of schizophrenia followed by complete recovery; at the other end of the spectrum is a course in which the illness never abates and debilitating effects increase. (source: Openthedoors). Recent research increasingly shows that the disease process of schizophrenia gradually and significantly damages the brain of the person, and that earlier treatments (medications and other therapies) seem to result in less damage over time (source: UCLA NeuroImaging Lab , Other info – see “Early Treatment” section of this page).

Cost of Treatment.

In US outpatient treatment Attenders for a six month period is $274.(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15952946)

Following Links will be useful.

http://www.mindsfoundation.org/what-is-mental-illness/?gclid=CLSHk629sbsCFUlT4godomMA8A

http://www.schizophrenia.com/szfacts.htm

For cost of Treatment check http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2932983/

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