Duration of illness as a prognostic indicator in mental illness.

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Abstract
When significant variables were controlled, no significant relationship was discovered between duration of mental illness and the outcome of the illness. A sample of 486 patients was used. The results were interpreted to mean that "the prognostic importance of duration of illness derived from its relationship to other variables related to the basic disease process, that the mere passage of time presaged neither good nor bad for mental illness, but rather, that it was the processes allowed to progress unchecked during this period that were of prognostic importance in mental illness." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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