ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2013
Perceived emotional support in remission: results from an 18-month follow-up of patients with early episode psychosis.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Psychological interventions for psychosis in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for prodromal stage of psychosis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Implementing family involvement in the treatment of patients with psychosis: a systematic review of facilitating and hindering factors.BMJ open · 2014Pooled it
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- Informal carers' experiences of mental health services regarding supporting those they care for and getting support for their own wellbeing: A systematic umbrella review of qualitative evidence.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Perceived stress and social support as correlates of sickle cell anaemia severity in a low-resource setting.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Self-stigma, religiosity, and perceived social support in people with recent-onset psychosis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Associations with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Article
- Review of Major Social Determinants of Health in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders: II. Assessments.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
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- Family engagement as part of managing patients with mental illness in primary care.Singapore medical journal · 2021Article
- Carers' experiences of involuntary admission under mental health legislation: systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.BJPsych open · 2020Article
- Perspectives of patients, carers and mental health staff on early warning signs of relapse in psychosis: a qualitative investigation.BJPsych open · 2019Article
- How to make carer involvement in mental health inpatient units happen: a focus group study with patients, carers and clinicians.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
- Social networks, mental health problems, and mental health service utilization in OEF/OIF National Guard veterans.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
- Delusional belief flexibility and informal caregiving relationships in psychosis: a potential cognitive route for the protective effect of social support.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2014Article
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Abstract
purposeSerious mental illness is known for the damage that it inflicts on the social network and social support of patients. Although many studies have used relapse and rehospitalisation as outcomes, recent research has emphasized the importance of a fuller definition of recovery that includes social function. In this study, our goal is to investigate the association of social support with sustained remission in patients with early episode psychosis.
methodsA secondary analysis of remission and social support was performed with 123 of 144 patients enrolled in the Lambeth Early Onset randomized clinical trial who ever achieved symptom-free status in 18 months of follow-up. Social support was measured by hours of family contact, perceived support, and network size at 6 months into an early intervention treatment program. Consensus judgments made by clinicians on symptom status at each of 18 months of follow-up were analyzed for consecutive months spent in remission. Direct and mediated effects of social support on remission were calculated using Poisson regression and path analysis, respectively.
results114 of 123 patients achieved remission after about 7 months on average [mean 6.81 (SD 4.17)]. In univariate models, perceived emotional support predicted longer time spent in remission, while moderate family contact predicted shorter remission duration. Perceived practical support was not associated with remission. Perceived emotional support mediated the association between family contact and remission and between network size and remission. These results are not totally attributable to a specialized early intervention treatment.
conclusionStructural measures of support probably contribute to the maintenance of remission through the patient's perception of emotional support.
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