[Integrating close relatives of people experiencing schizophrenia in the mental health system].

CONCLUSIONS: Our results plead for further research on a larger and less homogeneous sample. Confirming our findings could help build useful recommendations leading to better integrated families who currently seem to feel relatively isolated and exclused in the healthcare process, despite the strategic role they could play and despite the many recommendations of public health policies in that matter. Efforts should continue to be made to reach the goal of a better inclusion of families and close relatives of people experiencing schizophrenia or schizophrenia spectrum disorders, in particular in the field of information and communication with health professionals, both areas which seem to have a potential effect on close relatives' illness negative perceptions. Family psychoeducation deserves more attention and should be more systematically proposed to French families with an easier and free access. PMID: 31959464 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: L Encephale - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Encephale Source Type: research