Setting
schizophrenia, psychiatric
DISORDERS
The trial will take place in Hanting, Kuiwen and Weicheng district, Weifang city, Shandong province in China. The three districts have a population of 1,470,000 persons in 23 sub-districts. Six sub-districts in each district were chosen, yielding to 18 sub-districts in the trial. There is a community health center in each sub-district that covering the facility-based care of local people with severe psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. The number of registered schizophrenia patients of each sub-district ranges from 52 to 138, with 12 to 25 patients are planned to recruit.