[Relevant predictors of the 5 year outcome of patients with schizophrenic or similar paranoid psychoses (author's transl)].

In a 5 year follow-up study of 81 patients suffering from schizophrenic or similar psychoses many of the predictors known from the literature concerning the outcome of schizophrenia were confirmed. In accordance with the results of the follow-up study on patients from the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia (IPSS), long lasting professional disintegration and psychiatric hospitalisation preceding index-admission were of special prognostic importance. However in contrast to this follow-up study, other psychopathological data, especially minus symptoms proved to be of considerable prognostic significance. As a result of stepwise multiple regression analyses, combinations of the 5 best characteristics for each outcome-criterion have been found which explain a significantly greater part of the variance than single characteristics.