This article analyzes subject recruitment for the Mental Health Treatment Study (MHTS) — a national 23-site randomized trial that provided access to effective treatment and rehabilitation interventions for Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) beneficiaries with psychiatric impairments. We...

Schizophrenia is a profoundly disabling chronic mental disorder with an estimated annual prevalence rate of about 1.3% for the U.S. population age 18 to 54 ( USDHHS, 1999 ). One reason it is so disabling is that onset typically occurs in early adulthood, impacting on a range of life experiences...