Medico-social importance of informational and educational work with schizophrenics' relatives

The article regards the issues of improvement of informational and educational help for families of schizophrenics. There was made an inquiry of relatives of mentally sick persons being treated at Ryazan regional clinical mental hospital. We estimated the level of knowledge of tested people concerning the methods of treatment, means of prevention of exacerbation, their role in the process of treatment. We marked the importance to estimate the awareness of patients' relatives and the necessity to raise the quality and efficiency of specialized help with the use of educational programs.