Expressed Emotion and Schizophrenia in North India
| Autor: | J. Leff, N. N. Wig, D. K. Menon, H. Bedi, L. Kuipers, A. Ghosh, A. Korten, G. Ernberg, R. Day, N. Sartorius, A. Jablensky |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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First contact
medicine.medical_specialty Emotions India Hostility North india Life Change Events 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Recurrence Schizophrenic Psychology medicine Humans Expressed emotion Family 030212 general & internal medicine Psychiatry Family Health business.industry Follow up studies Prognosis medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Schizophrenia medicine.symptom business Attitude to Health Follow-Up Studies Clinical psychology Diagnosis of schizophrenia |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Psychiatry. 151:166-173 |
| ISSN: | 1472-1465 0007-1250 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/bjp.151.2.166 |
| Popis: | We conducted a one-year follow-up of patients who had made a first contact with psychiatric services in Chandigarh, North India, and had been assigned a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The expressed emotion (EE) of the patients' relatives was assessed early on. We found the same associations between the individual components of EE and relapse of schizophrenia as in previous Anglo-American studies, but only the association between hostility and relapse was statistically significant. Applying the same criteria as in the Anglo American studies for ‘high EE’, we found a significant relationship between high EE and relapse. This relationship was not explained by other factors often associated with higher relapse rates. We conclude that the significantly better outcome of Chandigarh first-contact patients compared with a London sample is largely due to the significantly lower proportion of high-EE relatives in the North Indian sample. |
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