Am J Psychiatry 1986; 143:1551-1556
Copyright © 1986 by American Psychiatric Association
A controlled study of transitional day care for non-chronically-ill patients
ID Glick, L Fleming, N DeChillo, N Meyerkopf, C Jackson, D Muscara and M Good- Ellis
The authors randomly assigned 79 inpatients with nonchronic schizophrenia
or affective disorder to either an intensive experimental day program
called "transitional treatment" or a control treatment-- weekly clinically
believed to require intensive posthospital treatment to make the transition
to the community. Although initially there was a significantly higher
dropout rate from the control condition, at the point of discharge from the
two programs as well as at 6- and 12-month follow-up there was no
difference in outcome. Direct costs for the transitional treatment,
however, were much higher.
