伊藤, 順一郎

大島, 巌

鈴木, 丈

イトウ, ジュンイチロウ

オオシマ, イワオ

スズキ, タケシ

Tsukada, Kazumi

Itou, Junichiro

Oshima, Iwao

Suzuki, Takeshi

精神分裂病

心理教育

複合家族グループ

To evaluate the use of family psychoeducation to reduce expressed emotion (EE) components in relatives of schizophrenic patients and to prevent relapse of the patients, eighty-five schizophrenic patients admitted to Kohnodai Hospital were randomly assigned to intervention or control groups. Families of both groups were assessed for EE and those of the intervention group received psychoeducational intervention monthly for 10 months. Among the patients, whose families had high EE scores, the relapse rate 9 months after discharge was significantly lower in the intervention group than in the control group. When relatives showed high initial emotional overinvolvement (EOI) subscores, these subscores were significantly reduced in the intervention groups but not in control groups both at discharge and 9 months later. Family psychoeducation given monthly was effective in preventing the relapse of schizophrenic patients, and reduced the EOI subscores of relatives whose subscores were initially high.