Expressed emotion of family members and psychiatric relapses of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia

Conclusion: Expressed emotion was insufficient to predict relapses. Thus, a relapse should be understood as a multifactorial phenomenon. These results provide support for interventions and investigations on the multiple factors involved in the evolution of schizophrenia patients in follow-up at community-based health services.
Source: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP - Category: Nursing Source Type: research