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Abstract
Recent data on burden of mental disorders world wide demonstrates a major public health problem that affects patients, society, and nations as a whole. Mental disorders contribute significantly to the global burden of disease, as four out of the ten diseases with the highest burden are psychiatric disorders.
Schizophrenia as a mental disorder is the most common chronic psychosis in Egypt and accounts for the majority of inpatients in our mental hospitals.
Although the main component of mental health care costs for schizophrenia is hospitalization, there are also substantial indirect or time-loss costs. If factors that are predictive of higher-treatment and/or indirect costs can be identified, they may be useful as foci for interventions aimed at reducing costs.