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In the introduction the authors mention the best known authors who investigated the dynamics of interpersonal relations in families with a schizophrenic patient. The illustrative statement of an intelligent loving sister is adopted from article by Brodoff and according to the authors it has transcultural validity. In our country the solution is only modified by socioeconomic dependence of the adolescent and young adult on the nuclear family. Therefore the separation of the healthy sibling takes frequently an inopportune course and should be adjusted by psychological psychiatric intervention within primary prevention. In the conclusion the authors inform on the psychosomatic reaction of mothers after the establishment of the diagnosis of schizophrenia. A total of seven mothers, sick adolescent (four times a son, three times a daughter). In all instances severe prolonged metrorrhagia was involved. According to catamnestic data four times hysterectomy was performed (always without a pathological finding).
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PMID:[Problems of siblings of schizophrenics]. 224 81

The aim of this study was to examine the sociodemographic and clinical variables associated with life satisfaction in psychiatric patients. The study population consisted of out-patients and in-patients (n = 1204) treated at the Department of Psychiatry of Kuopio University Hospital in North Savo, Finland, during May 1993. Sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical correlates of life satisfaction were examined by means of two different questionnaires, one directed at patients and the other directed at the staff. Life satisfaction was assessed by means of a separate scale based on four questions. Patients with schizophrenia were less dissatisfied than patients with other disorders. The strongest correlates of dissatisfaction were depression and poor social support. Other factors relating to dissatisfaction in multiple regression analysis were self-rated health and poor financial circumstances. A psychosomatic reaction tendency or degree of psychosocial functioning at the time of the study was not independently related to life satisfaction. Psychiatric patients who are dissatisfied should be evaluated both for depression and for effectiveness of their social network.
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PMID:Correlates of life satisfaction among psychiatric patients. 912 86