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Schizophrenic psychoses are found equally among deaf as hearing people.
However, there are more deaf schizophrenic people in hospitals than
hearing possibly as a result of communication difficulties and a
misdiagnosis of paranoia or learning disability resulting in longer
hospitalization. One study found that the average stay in hospital to
be 148 days for the general population and 19.5 years for deaf
inpatients. (Kitson and Fry 1990).