Ethnicity, family cohesion, religiosity and general emotional distress in patients with schizophrenia and their relatives.
Ethnicity, family cohesion, religiosity and general emotional distress in patients with schizophrenia and their relatives.
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精神分裂症患者及其亲属的种族、家庭凝聚力、宗教信仰和一般情绪困扰。
DOI：
10.1097/01.nmd.0000165087.20440.d1
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2005
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Armesto,Jorge
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作者：
Weisman,Amy;Rosales,Grace;Kymalainen,Jennifer;Armesto,Jorge
这项研究的样本包括 57 名英裔美国人、拉丁美洲人和非裔美国人的精神分裂症患者及其家人。研究结果表明，正如假设的那样，对于患者来说，家庭凝聚力的增强与一般情绪困扰和精神症状的减少有关。对于拉丁裔和非裔美国人后裔的家庭成员来说，正如假设的那样，自我报告的更大的家庭凝聚力似乎也对防止情绪困扰具有保护作用。然而，没有发现家庭凝聚力与英美家庭成员的普遍情绪困扰之间存在关联。有趣的是，患者及其亲属对家庭环境的看法之间没有发现任何关系。因此，鼓励与家庭合作的研究人员和临床医生对每个成员的家庭环境进行单独评估。与预期相反，宗教信仰与患者或家庭成员的情绪困扰或患者的精神症状无关。讨论了研究的意义。
This study included a sample of 57 Anglo-American, Latino American, and African American patients with schizophrenia and their family members. Findings indicate that for patients, as hypothesized, increasing perceptions of family cohesion was associated with less general emotional distress and fewer psychiatric symptoms. For family members of Latino and African American descent, greater self-reported family cohesion also appeared to have a protective effect against emotional distress, as hypothesized. However, no association was found between family cohesion and general emotional distress for Anglo-American family members. Interestingly, no relationship was found between patients' and their relatives' views of their family environment. Thus, researchers and clinicians working with families are encouraged to attain separate assessments of the family environment from each individual member. Contrary to expectations, religiosity was not associated with patient or family member emotional distress or with patient psychiatric symptoms. Study implications are discussed.