Catatonic Schizophrenia: Impact of Family Members on Patient Outcome
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2022-03
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Desousa Foundation
Abstract
Background: Schizophrenia is defined by basic and recurring cognitive and perceptual abnormalities, as well as inappropriate or dulled affect. And catatonic schizophrenia is characterized by prominent psychomotor disturbances. Methodology: The study was conducted in the months of November and December 2021. The researcher had used a qualitative approach to understand the impact of family members on patient with catatonic schizophrenia. The researcher took permission from the hospital and consent from the patient and his family members to conduct the study. Results: The results indicated that there was an avoid in relapse while staying with low expressed emotion family and the yielded results were similar to decades of research on schizophrenia and EE families. Conclusion: This study proves that there is an impact of family members on patient outcome.
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Catatonic Schizophrenia, Expressed Emotion, Patient Outcome, Family Experiences.
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Das Chandan. Catatonic Schizophrenia: Impact of Family Members on Patient Outcome . Indian Journal of Mental Health. 2022 Mar; 9(1): 58-62