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Social adjustment in schizophrenia: factors predictive of short‐term social adjustment in a sample of schizophrenic patients
Author(s) -
Montero I.,
Pérez I. Ruiz,
GómezBeneyto M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb09972.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , logistic regression , psychiatry , psychosis , social functioning , outcome (game theory) , social support , clinical psychology , medicine , distress , psychotherapist , mathematics , mathematical economics
A sample of 60 Spanish schizophrenic patients was studied in order to ascertain the relationship between their relatives' expressed emotion (EE) and social adjustment after 2 years of follow‐up. The average extent of the disability did not increase over time, and differences in dysfunction rates between the various specific social roles were identified. No differences in social outcome were detected between patients with high EE and low EE families. Three factors which predict social adjustment outcome were obtained using logistic regression analysis, namely clinical conditions, baseline social adjustment and the occurrence of a psychotic relapse during the follow‐up period.