The outcome of family interventions for the mothers of schizophrenia patients in Iran.

Unlabelled: Family intervention in schizophrenia is known to reduce high expressed emotion (EE) burden in relatives, reduce patients' relapse and improve patient functioning; but these issues have not been studied in Iran.

Aims: To examine the effects of behavioural family management (based on Falloon's model) for Iranian mothers of patients with schizophrenia, compared with psychoeducation and standard care.

Method: Randomized controlled trial in Iran with 55 mothers of outpatients with schizophrenia, of whom 18 received behavioural family management, 19 psychoeducation and 18 standard care.

Factor structure of the Preschool Personality Questionnaire in Iran.

This study is of Triandis's pseudoetic variety, not a cross-cultural study per se. The Preschool Personality Questionnaire which was standardized in the SA and partially standardized in Colombia was administered to 600 preschool children in Iran. Data from the entire sample were analyzed by both principal components, maximum likelihood, and alpha factor analyses.