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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 1/2006

01-01-2006 | Original Paper

Does Expressed Emotion need to be understood within a more systemic framework?

An examination of discrepancies in appraisals between patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and their relatives

Authors: Dr. Fiona Lobban, Prof. Christine Barrowclough, Dr. Steven Jones

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 1/2006

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Abstract

Background

This study examined the relationship between discrepancies in beliefs about schizophrenia and Expressed Emotion (EE) in family dyads.

Method

Illness beliefs were assessed in patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and their relatives (N=49 dyads). The degree and the direction of discrepancy were calculated, and comparisons were made between dyads in which the relative was rated as high EE and dyads in which the relative was rated as low EE.

Results

There was greater discrepancy between illness models of schizophrenia in dyads involving a high-EE relative than in dyads involving a low-EE relative. This difference was not accounted for by the differences in either relatives' or patients' beliefs alone.

Conclusion

Further research is needed to understand EE in the context of discrepancies in beliefs between patients and relatives rather than focussing on relatives' beliefs alone.
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Metadata
Title
Does Expressed Emotion need to be understood within a more systemic framework?
An examination of discrepancies in appraisals between patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and their relatives
Authors
Dr. Fiona Lobban
Prof. Christine Barrowclough
Dr. Steven Jones
Publication date
01-01-2006
Publisher
Steinkopff-Verlag
Published in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 1/2006
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-005-0993-z

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