TY - JOUR
TI - EXPRESSED EMOTION IN FAMILIES OF CHRONIC-SCHIZOPHRENICS AND ITS
ASSOCIATION WITH CLINICAL MEASURES
AU - MAVREAS, VG
AU - TOMARAS, V
AU - KARYDI, V
AU - ECONOMOU, M
AU - STEFANIS,
AU - CN
JO - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PY - 1992
VL - 27
TODO - 1
SP - 4-9
PB - Springer-Verlag
SN - 0933-7954, 1433-9285
TODO - 10.1007/BF00788949
TODO - null
TODO - A controlled clinical study on the outcome of family intervention in
chronic schizophrenics is being carried out in Athens.  All subjects
participating in the study reside with their families and attend a
vocational rehabilitation unit.  Those belonging to families
characterized by high “Expressed Emotion” (EE) are randomly assigned
to either the experimental or the control condition.  The former receive
family intervention combined with individual treatment, the latter
individual treatment alone.  75 subjects have entered the study, and 121
relatives were interviewed with the Camberwell Family Interview.  40
patients (53.3%) were found to belong to high EE families.  The present
article presents the results of the baseline assessment.  It was found
that the EE status of the family was significantly associated with
measures of psychopathology and social functioning (BPRS, GAS, DAS,
number of residual symptoms).  Further analyses revealed that these
associations exist only when all key relatives express high EE.  The
implications of these findings are discussed.
ER -