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Emotional Overinvolvement in Parents of Patients with Schizophrenia or Related Psychosis: Demographic and Clinical Predictors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Håvard Bentsen ,
Birgitte Boye ,
Ole Georg Munkvold ,
Tor Helge Notland ,
Annette B. Lersbryggen ,
Kirsti H. Oskarsson ,
Ingun Ulstein ,
Gunvor Uren ,
Heidi Bjørge  and
Rolf Berg-Larsen
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Håvard Bentsen*
Affiliation:
Department Group of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, and Gaustad Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Birgitte Boye
Affiliation:
Blakstad Hospital, Asker
Ole Georg Munkvold
Affiliation:
Blakstad Hospital, Asker
Tor Helge Notland
Affiliation:
Blakstad Hospital, Asker
Annette B. Lersbryggen
Affiliation:
Blakstad Hospital, Asker
Kirsti H. Oskarsson
Affiliation:
Blakstad Hospital, Asker
Ingun Ulstein
Affiliation:
Gaustad Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Gunvor Uren
Affiliation:
Blakstad Hospital, Asker
Heidi Bjørge
Affiliation:
Gaustad Hospital, Oslo
Rolf Berg-Larsen
Affiliation:
Blakstad Hospital, Asker
Odd Lingjærde
Affiliation:
Department Group of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, and Gaustad Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Ulrik F. Malt
Affiliation:
Department Group of Psychiatry, University of Oslo
*
Dr H. Bentsen, PO Box 33, Gaustad, N-0320 Oslo, Norway
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Abstract

Background

Parental emotional overinvolvement (EOI) may entail a worse outcome in schizophrenia. In the present study we examined demographic and clinical predictors of EOI.

Method

The predictors were examined in a Norwegian sample of 41 recently admitted patients (schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder) and 66 parents. Parents' expressed emotion was assessed by the Camberwell Family Interview.

Results

Regression analyses showed that higher EOI was significantly related, on the part of the parent to being a mother, single, spending more time with the patient; and, on the part of the patient, to no substance misuse, more anxiety–depression, and less uncritical and aggressive behaviour. EOI was not linked to previous hospital admissions.

Conclusion

Our analyses indicate that characteristics of the parent and of the parent–patient dyad seem to be the most important determinants of EOI. EOI is probably not linked to psychotic relapse, but rather to affective disturbances in the patient.

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Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 169 , Issue 5 , November 1996 , pp. 622 - 630
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1996 

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