title: A better outlook for schizophrenics living in extended families.
abstract: Cases of schizophrenia and schizophreniform attacks living in extended families have been compared to cases with similar diagnoses in nuclear families. Both diagnostic groups living in extended families presented earlier: they had lower rates of withdrawal symptoms and higher rates of behavioural disturbances and subjective suffering. Inter-generational conflict was a significantly more common precipitating factor in patients living in extended families; this was therapeutically utilized to induce family support. Patients from extended families had a lower tendency to deteriorate into with drawn, affectively blunted residual states.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009679:Nuclear Family; D011379:Prognosis; D012559:Schizophrenia; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology