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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on February 9, 2006
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006 32(3):584-589; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbj048
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Health Status of Individuals With Serious Mental Illness

Faith B. Dickerson1,2, Clayton H. Brown3–5, Gail L. Daumit6, Fang LiJuan5, Richard W. Goldberg4,5, Karen Wohlheiter5 and Lisa B. Dixon4,5
2 Sheppard Pratt Health System, Baltimore, Md
3 Department of Epidemiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md
4 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Baltimore VA, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md
5 Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md
6 Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md

1To whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: fdickerson{at}sheppardpratt.org

We examined indices of the health of persons with serious mental illness. A sample of 100 adults with schizophrenia and 100 with major mood disorder were recruited from randomly selected outpatients who were receiving community-based psychiatric treatment. Participants were surveyed about health indicators using items from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study III and the National Health Interview Survey. Their responses were compared with those of matched samples from the general population surveys. A total of 1% of persons with serious mental illness, compared with 10% from the general population sample, met criteria for all 5 of selected health indicators: nonsmoker, exercise that meets recommended standards, good dentition, absence of obesity, and absence of serious medical co-occurring illness. Within the mentally ill group, educational level, but not a diagnosis of schizophrenia versus mood disorder, was independently associated with a composite measure of health behaviors. We conclude that an examination of multiple health indicators may be used to measure overall health status in persons with serious mental illness.

Keywords: schizophrenia / physical health / affective disorders


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