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Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic

BACKGROUND: High expressed emotion (EE) experienced by people with mental illness is a known risk factor of relapse. With drastically increased time spent at home and limited health and social service provision during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients’ experience of high EE warranted attention. AIMS A...

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Autores principales: Ng, Siu-Man, Gao, Siyu, Wang, Amenda Man, Cheuk, Christine, Li, Jane, Fung, Melody Hiu-ying
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9384529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35996532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac049
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author Ng, Siu-Man
Gao, Siyu
Wang, Amenda Man
Cheuk, Christine
Li, Jane
Fung, Melody Hiu-ying
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description BACKGROUND: High expressed emotion (EE) experienced by people with mental illness is a known risk factor of relapse. With drastically increased time spent at home and limited health and social service provision during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients’ experience of high EE warranted attention. AIMS AND METHODS: The study aimed to investigate the experience of high EE among people with mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic. We surveyed the service users of 2 community mental health centers, including participants with psychotic and nonpsychotic disorders. RESULTS: Valid responses from 303 participants indicated an overall high EE prevalence of 71.62%, much higher than previous findings, which range between 30% and 40%. People with other psychotic and nonpsychotic disorders showed a higher probability of experiencing high EE than people with schizophrenia. Participants reported a higher probability of experiencing high EE as a result of caregiving by other family relatives and friends than by parents. CONCLUSION: Findings suggest a significantly elevated high EE prevalence among people suffering from mental illness in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is worth further evaluating the long-term effects of high EE beyond the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-93845292022-08-18 Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic Ng, Siu-Man Gao, Siyu Wang, Amenda Man Cheuk, Christine Li, Jane Fung, Melody Hiu-ying Schizophr Bull Open Regular Article BACKGROUND: High expressed emotion (EE) experienced by people with mental illness is a known risk factor of relapse. With drastically increased time spent at home and limited health and social service provision during the COVID-19 pandemic, patients’ experience of high EE warranted attention. AIMS AND METHODS: The study aimed to investigate the experience of high EE among people with mental illness during the COVID-19 pandemic. We surveyed the service users of 2 community mental health centers, including participants with psychotic and nonpsychotic disorders. RESULTS: Valid responses from 303 participants indicated an overall high EE prevalence of 71.62%, much higher than previous findings, which range between 30% and 40%. People with other psychotic and nonpsychotic disorders showed a higher probability of experiencing high EE than people with schizophrenia. Participants reported a higher probability of experiencing high EE as a result of caregiving by other family relatives and friends than by parents. CONCLUSION: Findings suggest a significantly elevated high EE prevalence among people suffering from mental illness in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is worth further evaluating the long-term effects of high EE beyond the pandemic. Oxford University Press 2022-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9384529/ /pubmed/35996532 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac049 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Maryland's school of medicine, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Survey of High Expressed Emotions Experienced By Community Mental Health Service Users in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9384529/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35996532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac049
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