Assessing expressed emotion during pregnancy.

We assessed expressed emotion (EE) with an adapted version of the five-minute speech sample in 847 pregnant women. The prevalence of high EE was 6%. High EE was significantly associated with having a first child, low income, maternal childhood trauma and lack of parental emotional warmth during childhood.

Diagnostic validity of the Eppendorf Schizophrenia Inventory (ESI): a self-report screen for ultrahigh risk and acute psychosis.

Providers of mental health services need tools to screen for acute psychosis and ultrahigh risk (UHR) for transition to psychosis in help-seeking individuals. In this study, the Eppendorf Schizophrenia Inventory (ESI) was examined as a screening tool and for its ability to correctly predict diagnostic group membership (e.g.

Childrearing style in families of anxiety-disordered children: between-family and within-family differences.

This study examined whether (1) parents of anxiety-disordered (AD) children differed from those of non-clinical controls in their childrearing style, and whether (2) the child-rearing style of parents towards AD children is different from that towards their siblings. A clinical sample of 25 AD children, age range 8-13 years, was compared with 25 siblings and a non-clinical control group (n = 25). Childrearing was assessed by means of parental self-report, child report and through an expressed emotion interview measure.

Reliability and validity of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale in schizophrenia patients.

Although a sizeable minority of people with schizophrenia manifest obsessive and compulsive symptoms, to our knowledge there are no studies of the psychometric performance of measures such as the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS). The present study examined psychometric properties of the Y-BOCS in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and comorbid obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS). To 37 patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and related disorders and comorbid OCS taken from 135 consecutively admitted patients we administered the Y-BOCS at admission and 6 weeks later.

Predictors of the early 5-year course of schizophrenia: a path analysis.

In this study, the effect of 19 possible predictor variables on 4 outcome variables was analyzed in young patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and related disorders (n = 64). Patients who participated in a 15-month intervention program were stratified into low and high parental expressed emotion and randomized over two intervention conditions: standard intervention and standard plus family intervention. Baseline variables were measured during the intervention.

Subjective experience and D2 receptor occupancy in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia treated with low-dose olanzapine or haloperidol: a randomized, double-blind study.

Objective: The authors tested the hypothesis that a dopamine D(2) receptor occupancy level between 60% and 70% in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia would result in optimal subjective experience. In addition, they sought preliminary evidence on whether subjective experience is better with low-dose olanzapine than with low-dose haloperidol.

Method: Subjects (N=24) who met DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia were randomly assigned to 6 weeks of double-blind treatment with either olanzapine, 7.

The course of parental expressed emotion and psychotic episodes after family intervention in recent-onset schizophrenia. A longitudinal study.

The stability of parental expressed emotion (EE) is analysed over about 9 years, and related to course of illness in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia. Families, who participated in a 15-month intervention, were randomised over two intervention conditions. Psychotic episodes were measured over 5 years after discharge.

Caregiver burden in recent-onset schizophrenia and spectrum disorders: the influence of symptoms and personality traits.

Earlier studies that used two symptom dimensions indicate that the caregiver burden for patients with schizophrenia is significantly determined by their negative symptoms. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between symptom severity in recent-onset schizophrenia and caregiver burden in a more differentiated way (i.e.