[Analysis of the effect of the stress of war on schizophrenic psychosis].
Several experiments have shown an important relationship between schizophrenia and stress. People in Sarajevo and also, schizophrenic patients, who were in Sarajevo during the war, were exposed to frightful life experiences for over 1,300 days. The main goal of this investigation was evaluation of the course of schizophrenic psychosis in stress related war. Reason for this epidemiological study was a lack of knowledge about influence of war-stress on the course of schizophrenic psychosis, as well as, the fact that behavior of schizophrenic patients was changed during the war. This study was prospective, retrospective and controlled in its design. This influence of war related stress on the length and quality of remission of schizophrenic patients, the most common stress factors which impacted an schizophrenic patients during the war were identified, as wall as, different types and differences in demographic characteristics of patients who had different causes of schizophrenic psychosis. With this in mind, hypothesis between stress and course of schizophrenic psychosis were set. Experiment had covered those following groups: group (E), patients were hospitalized from 1.1.1987 to 31.12.1991, control group (K) patients were hospitalized from 1.1.1987 to 31.12.1991 but did not live in Sarajevo during the war and subsample of control group K (K1) which included schizophrenic patients who were hospitalized from 1.1.1987 to 31.12.1991, and were not treated in period from 6.4.1992 to 5.04.1995 despite the fact that they lived in Sarajevo during that period.