title: Patient Rejection Scale: correlations with symptoms, social disability and number of rehospitalizations.
abstract: The Patient Rejection Scale (RPS), which was developed to assess rejecting attitudes and feelings of relatives toward mental patients, was administered to a German sample of 44 family members or significant others living with first-admitted schizophrenics. Both at admission (t0) and 6 months later (t6), the PRS was significantly correlated with the number of rehospitalizations during the first 3 years after admission. In comparison, the association between PRS scores and different measures of psychopathology during the 2-year follow-up period was weak. Thus, rejecting attitudes of patients' relatives seem to imply a higher risk of relapse without substantial medication by symptoms. We suspect that relatives with rejecting attitudes towards a patient might tend to apply for readmission more easily than more accepting relatives.
authors.affiliation: Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bailer
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rist
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bräuer
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Rey
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004644:Emotions; D005190:Family; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010359:Patient Readmission; D012008:Recurrence; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012928:Social Desirability