Open AccessAssociations between parental bonding during childhood and functional recovery in patients with schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Junpei Ishii,
Fumitoshi Kodaka,
Hisatsugu Miyata,
Wataru Yamadera,
Hikaru Seto,
Keisuke Inamura,
Hidejiro Higuchi,
Yoshiaki Tsuruoka,
Masahiro Shigeta
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0240504
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , logistic regression , medicine , exploratory research , psychiatry , psychology , clinical psychology , sociology , anthropology
Schizophrenia is believed to be etiologically associated with environmental factors. Poor parental bonding, especially arising from “low care” and “overprotection,” may contribute to the prognosis in patients with psychosis. In the present study, we investigated the associations between the aforementioned two different parental bonding types and the prognosis, in terms of the functional recovery, of patients with schizophrenia. Methods A total of 89 patients with schizophrenia were recruited, and 79 patients were registered for the study. After the parental bonding types and representative childhood adverse events were assessed, specific items on the PANSS were assessed at 0 and 24 weeks of the study period to define the functional prognosis. Results At the end of the 24-week follow-up period, 36% of the patients were judged as showing recovery from schizophrenia. The score for “overprotective attitude,” but not that for “low care,” was found to be significantly higher in the non-recovery (defined below) group. Exploratory logistic regression analysis identified only “overprotective attitude” of the parents as being predictive of non-recovery . Moreover, a significant negative correlation was found between “low care” and “overprotective attitude” only in the non-recovery group. Conclusion In the present study, we showed that an overprotective attitude of the parents was associated with non-recovery in patients with schizophrenia.