Expressed emotion from the five-minute speech sample and relapse of out-patients with schizophrenia.
We investigated the relationship between 9-month relapse of 40 outpatients with schizophrenia and expressed emotion (EE) evaluated by the Five-Minute Speech Sample (FMSS). The results of this study suggest that the FMSS is suitable for use as a convenient instrument to measure EE, although it shows more false-positive results. Therefore borderline EE of the FMSS might have to be regarded as high EE.
Uehara
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Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan.
Yokoyama
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T
Goto
M
M
Kohmura
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N
Nakano
Y
Y
Toyooka
K
K
Ihda
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S
D000328:Adult; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D019370:Observation / Q000379:methods; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012008:Recurrence; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013060:Speech / Q000145:classification*