PMID: 11931092Apr 5, 2002Paper

Predictors of components of expressed emotion in major caregivers of Turkish patients with schizophrenia

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
A Nuray Karanci, Hicran Inandilar

Abstract

Expressed emotion (EE) is a concept reflecting the emotional atmosphere of the home environment. Specific components of EE, namely criticism, hostility and emotional over-involvement, have been found to be important predictors of relapse for schizophrenic patients. The main aim of this study was to examine the predictive power of patient and caregiver characteristics and caregivers' perceptions of frequency, coping, distress/discomfort, control of symptom behaviours by the patient, and attributions on locus of causality for the development of the illness on two components of EE (criticism/hostility and emotional over-involvement) in a sample of major caregivers of Turkish schizophrenic patients. Seventy-two caregivers of schizophrenic patients were administered a set of questionnaires tapping socio-demographic and illness-related variables, the family questionnaire tapping perceived frequency, distress/discomfort, coping and control of symptom behaviours, causal attributions for illness and, finally, the Expressed Emotion Scale in the hospital setting. The results showed that caregivers' perceptions of coping with specific symptom behaviours decreased criticism/hostility (C/H), whereas perceptions of higher frequency of symptom...Continue Reading

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