Family expressed emotion and outcome of schizophrenics: a study in a French cultural environment.
This is the first attempt in a french cultural environment to relate family characteristics and expressed emotion to clinical course of schizophrenics. patients were studied during a two year period after their first or second hospital stay. Critical comments on subcategory of classical expressed emotion is associated with relapse, rehospitalization and work capacity but not with a broad measure of social activity.
Barrelet
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Centre de thérapie brève, Institutions Universitaires de Psychiatrie, Geneva, Switzerland.
Pellizzer
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G
Ammann
L
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D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D013557:Switzerland