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Gender, family environment and schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Jill M. Goldstein  and
Dolores Kreisman
Jill M. Goldstein*
Affiliation:
Section of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School; Psychiatry Service Brockton-West Roxbury V A Medical Center; Bigel Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University; New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, USA
Dolores Kreisman
Affiliation:
Section of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School; Psychiatry Service Brockton-West Roxbury V A Medical Center; Bigel Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University; New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, USA
*
1 Address for correspondence: Dr J. M. Goldstein, The Psychiatry Service (116A), Brockton-West Roxbury VA Medical Center, 940 Belmont Street, Brockton, MA 02401, USA.
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Synopsis

This study examined the relationship between patient's gender and family environment, and the consequences of this for the course of treatment of schizophrenia. Data for 160 DSM-III schizophrenics and a family member were obtained regarding attitudes towards treatment, tolerance of symptomatic deviance, and one-year rehospitalization and lengths of hospital stay. Findings suggest that ill sons may be sent to hospital more often and remain in hospital longer than ill daughters, in part due to social norms and expectations of parents associated with gender.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , November 1988 , pp. 861 - 872
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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