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The Nithsdale Schizophrenia Surveys. VIII: Do Relatives Want Family Intervention – And Does It Help?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. G. McCreadie ,
K. Phillips ,
J. A. Harvey ,
G. Waldron ,
M. Stewart  and
D. Baird
R. G. McCreadie*
Affiliation:
Greater Glasgow Health Board (formerly Research Registrar, Crichton Royal Hospital)
K. Phillips
Affiliation:
Greater Glasgow Health Board (formerly Research Registrar, Crichton Royal Hospital)
J. A. Harvey
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital (formerly Research Registrar, Crichton Royal Hospital)
G. Waldron
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital (formerly Research Registrar, Crichton Royal Hospital)
M. Stewart
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital (formerly Research Registrar, Crichton Royal Hospital)
D. Baird
Affiliation:
Crichton Royal Hospital, Dumfries DG1 4TG
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Sixty-three relatives of 52 schizophrenics living at home were offered a package of treatments by professionals working in an everyday NHS setting: educational seminars, relatives' groups, and family meetings. Thirty-two relatives refused intervention. Of the 31 relatives who agreed, 14 attended neither the educational seminars nor the relatives' groups. Seventeen relatives had a mean of ten treatment sessions, but there was little change in their level of expressed emotion after intervention. The number of patients who relapsed was the same in the 18 months before and after intervention, although the total number of relapses fell after intervention.

British Journal of Psychiatry (1991), 158, 110–113

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 110 - 113
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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