title: Rejecting the patient: preliminary validation of a self-report scale.
abstract: The authors describe an easily administered scale being developed to assess the rejecting feelings of family respondents toward former mental patients who return to live with their families. Based upon a sample of 133 discharged mental patients and family members, the scale demonstrates a moderately high reliability (alpha = .78) and test-retest correlation (r = .72). Data are presented for evaluating the construct validity of the scale.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012008:Recurrence; D012059:Rejection, Psychology