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LIFE EVENTS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN MARRIED SCHIZOPHRENICS

Life events are associated with relapse in schizophrenia. However, the role and interplay of marriage and social support have not been explored in research on schizophrenia, especially stable patients. Life events and social support were assessed in two groups comprising 30 married and an equal numb...

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Autores principales: Kulhara, Parmanand, Avasthi, Ajit, Gupta, Nitin, Das, Mrigendra K., Nehra, Ritu, Rao, Shekhar A., Singh, Gagandeep
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1998
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494504
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author Kulhara, Parmanand
Avasthi, Ajit
Gupta, Nitin
Das, Mrigendra K.
Nehra, Ritu
Rao, Shekhar A.
Singh, Gagandeep
author_facet Kulhara, Parmanand
Avasthi, Ajit
Gupta, Nitin
Das, Mrigendra K.
Nehra, Ritu
Rao, Shekhar A.
Singh, Gagandeep
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description Life events are associated with relapse in schizophrenia. However, the role and interplay of marriage and social support have not been explored in research on schizophrenia, especially stable patients. Life events and social support were assessed in two groups comprising 30 married and an equal number of unmarried patients of schizophrenia. The time frame for these assessments was a period of 6 months prior to such evaluation. The married group reported higher stress score and greater number of undesirable life events. Negative correlation was present for social support with number of undesirable life events in the sample as a whole. Hence, it is concluded that marriage leads to experiencing more stress but there are other psychosocial variables mitigating the same and preventing relapse.
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spelling pubmed-29666912011-04-14 LIFE EVENTS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN MARRIED SCHIZOPHRENICS Kulhara, Parmanand Avasthi, Ajit Gupta, Nitin Das, Mrigendra K. Nehra, Ritu Rao, Shekhar A. Singh, Gagandeep Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Life events are associated with relapse in schizophrenia. However, the role and interplay of marriage and social support have not been explored in research on schizophrenia, especially stable patients. Life events and social support were assessed in two groups comprising 30 married and an equal number of unmarried patients of schizophrenia. The time frame for these assessments was a period of 6 months prior to such evaluation. The married group reported higher stress score and greater number of undesirable life events. Negative correlation was present for social support with number of undesirable life events in the sample as a whole. Hence, it is concluded that marriage leads to experiencing more stress but there are other psychosocial variables mitigating the same and preventing relapse. Medknow Publications 1998 /pmc/articles/PMC2966691/ /pubmed/21494504 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kulhara, Parmanand
Avasthi, Ajit
Gupta, Nitin
Das, Mrigendra K.
Nehra, Ritu
Rao, Shekhar A.
Singh, Gagandeep
LIFE EVENTS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN MARRIED SCHIZOPHRENICS
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title_fullStr LIFE EVENTS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN MARRIED SCHIZOPHRENICS
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title_short LIFE EVENTS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT IN MARRIED SCHIZOPHRENICS
title_sort life events and social support in married schizophrenics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494504
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