Living with schizophrenia: a family perspective.
The lifetime emotional, social, and financial consequences experienced by individuals with schizophrenia have significant effects on their families. Family responses to having a family member with schizophrenia include: care burden, fear and embarrassment about illness signs and symptoms, uncertainty about course of the disease, lack of social support, and stigma. Study findings about families in which parents are hostile, critical, or overly involved are equivocal about whether this negative environment contributes to patient relapse. This review summarizes the studies related to the family responses and emotional environment of families who have a member with schizophrenia.
Brady
Noreen
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The Sarah Cole Hirsh Institute for Best Nursing Practices of the Case Western Reserve University, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Cleveland, OH, USA. Noreen.Brady@Case.edu <Noreen.Brady@Case.edu>
McCain
Gail C
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D005192:Family Health; D022143:Family Nursing; D006801:Humans; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000451:nursing*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology