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The influence of family expressed emotion on the course of schizophrenia in a sample of Spanish patients. A two-year follow-up study.
M. Gómez-beneytoI. RuizIsabel MonteroE. PucheA. Adamsubject
AdultCross-Cultural ComparisonMalePsychosismedicine.medical_specialtyEmotionsSocial Environment03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineHostilityRecurrencemedicineExpressed emotionHumansFamily030212 general & internal medicinePsychiatryPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesFollow up studiesmedicine.disease030227 psychiatryPsychiatry and Mental healthCaregiversSchizophreniaSpainSchizophreniaFemaleSchizophrenic PsychologyPsychologyFollow-Up Studiesdescription
A sample of 60 Spanish schizophrenic patients was studied to ascertain the relationship between their relatives' expressed emotion (EE) and relapse at follow-up. The relatives' EE and patients' relapse were operationalised following Leff & Vaughn's criteria. At nine months a significant association was not found between the relatives' EE and relapse, but this association became significant on reclassifying the relatives' EE scores after decreasing to four points the cut-off point for critical comments. At 24 months no association was found between EE and relapse. There was a tendency for patients who interrupted their medication or who did not work to relapse more frequently, particularly among the high-EE group.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-08-01 | The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science |