Features of compliance and rehospitalization in patients with schizophrenia depending on comorbidity with cardiovascular pathology

Introduction. The combination of schizophrenia with diseases of the cardiovascular system (CVS), characterizedby cardiohypochondriac symptoms, often aggravates the course of a mental disorder with an increase in number ofhospitalizations and causes decrease in compliance against the background of refusal or untimely seeking medicalhelp. Objective: to evaluate compliance and re-hospitalization in patients with schizophrenia depending on theoutcomes of therapy for cardiovascular diseases. Materials and Methods. On the basis of the male generalpsychiatric unit no. 1 of the Specialist Psychiatric Hospital no. 7, Krasnodar, a non-randomized, single-center, noninterventional, prospective, cohort, naturalistic study of male patients (n=92) diagnosed with schizophrenia (F20according to ICD-10) was performed using a continuous method. Male patients were hospitalized within 12 monthsafter discharge from the hospital (from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019). The study sample was divided into two groups:with cardiovascular pathology (n=68) and without the specified pathology (n=24). Statistical data processing wasperformed using Statistica 6.1. Results. It has been established that the therapy of CVS pathology in 51.5% of caseshas a positive effect on the compliance of patients with schizophrenia. In patients with schizophrenia withconcomitant CVS pathology, the frequency of rehospitalizations had a negative correlation with the level ofcompliance (R=-0.50, p function show_eabstract() { $('#eabstract1').hide(); $('#eabstract2').show(); $('#eabstract_expand').hide(); }