Table 1.

The survey questionnaire.

Survey Questions
Socio-demographic information
Years of CR
Before and after CR: job or no job employment, sheltered or not sheltered employment, studies, graduation.
Questions about the type of regular clinical follow-up they actually have (private or public visits to the psychiatrist)
Treatment users actually have (the treatment they had when they participated to the CR program was reported in the CR file)
If users regularly visit different type of French mental health units: day-care, therapeutic activities, day-life assistance. Also, users were asked about their putative registration in a club-house or a mutual help users associative group.
Leisure practice: sport, reading books, regular visits in libraries or others (verbatim).
Inner feeling of clinical stability, relapses, number of relapses, hospitalizations and if yes, the duration of these hospitalizations.
Questions about their private condition of living: independent housing or housing in the family, single or living as a couple, having children
Questions about participation to other psychosocial therapy programs: psychoeducation, programs for care-givers, cognitive behaviour therapy, physical adapted activity.