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Expressed Emotion in Depressed Patients and Their Partners (1992)

Florin, Irmela ; Nostadt, Anja ; Reck, Corinna ; [et al.]

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Family process 31 (1992), S. 0

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ISSN: 1545-5300

Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Topics: Psychology

Notes: This study was designed to assess the expressed emotion (EE) status in the spouses of depressed patients and the patients themselves, to relate the EE status to the severity of depression as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and to compare the prevalence of high EE between the target and control group. Seventeen depressed patients and their spouses, and 20 control couples participated in the study. The Five-Minute Speech Sample was used to assess the EE status. High EE was significantly more common in spouses of depressed patients and the patients themselves than in controls. There was a significant relationship between the EE status of the patients and their spouses. High EE in the patient and in the spouse corresponded significantly with a high BDI score of the patient. These findings underline the importance that in EE research the patients' EE status as well as their present mental health state must also be taken into account.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.1992.00163.x

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Predicting Quality of Life After Lumbar Spondylodesis (1997)

Basler, Heinz-Dieter ; Zimmer, Christiane ; Griss, Peter ; [et al.]

Springer

Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings 4 (1997), S. 313-326

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ISSN: 1573-3572

Keywords: spondylodesis ; quality of life ; prediction ; pain ; functional capacity

Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Topics: Medicine

Notes: Abstract Quality of life after spondylodesis was predicted by pretreatment psychological variables and findings in a standardized physical examination. Four quality-of-life criteria were used: functional capacity, vocational rehabilitation, satisfaction with the outcome of the operation, and pain intensity recorded in a pain diary. Those of six presurgery variables that proved to be associated with the outcome 9 months postsurgery, by means of a multiple stepwise regression procedure, were selected for discriminant analyses. The sample consisted of 50 consecutive patients who underwent either ventral (n = 10) or posterolateral (n = 40) spondylodesis with or without posterior instrumentation. Their average age was 44.9 years (SD = 12.9) with an average duration of pain of 8.6 years (SD = 8.8). Nearly half of the patients had had previous spine surgery. Follow-up data indicate that about half of the patients show a beneficial outcome in terms of quality-of-life measures. Discriminant analyses suggest that poor presurgical functional capacity and an unclear finding in the physical examination before surgery contribute to our knowledge about patients who are likely to show continuous pain and poor functional capacity after surgery.