Levels of Expressed Emotion and Relapse in Depressed Patients
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 148 (6) , 642-647
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.148.6.642
Abstract
The relationship between spouses' levels of expressed emotion (EE) and relapse was examined in a sample of 39 depressed psychiatric hospital patients. Over a nine-month follow-up, 59% of patients with high-EE spouses relapsed, although no patients living with low-EE spouses did so. The results replicate the association found by Vaughn & Leff between EE and depression, and suggest that the EE construct has predictive validity in both schizophrenic and depressed populations.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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