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Expressed emotion as a predictor of schizophrenic relapse: an analysis of aggregated data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Gordon Parker  and
Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic
Gordon Parker*
Affiliation:
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic
Affiliation:
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Australia
*
1Address for correspondence: Professor G. Parker, Psychiatry Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick 2031, Australia.
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Synopsis

We examine published data from 12 studies assessing the capacity of Expressed Emotion (EE) status to predict schizophrenic relapse. Analysis of aggregated data, for 908 subjects, established a 3–7 times greater likelihood of relapse in those categorized as high EE, and a somewhat waning predictive strength EE over the publication interval, 1962–88.

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Brief Communication
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , November 1990 , pp. 961 - 965
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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