Abstract
Introduction Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that creates various psychosocial problems among family members. In addition, the family also contributes to psychosocial issues such as, expressed emotion. Expressed emotion (EE) has been found to predict relapse. Literature indicated that psychosocial interventions along with medicines would helps in mainstreaming the persons with illness. However, there is paucity of culturally sensitive interventions for EE in India. Methodology The objective of the study is to test the feasibility of cultural sensitive psychiatric social work intervention package to reduce expressed emotion among the caregivers of persons with schizophrenia in India. Ten caregivers of inpatients with schizophrenia from National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India, participated in the study. MINI 6.0 was used as screening tool. Socio-demographic profile collected. The Family Emotional Involvement and Criticism Scale was used to elicit the expressed emotion. A standardized 10 session spread over 10 days psychiatric social work package was given to the caregivers. Intervention package included methods of Social work and various techniques. Results and conclusion Mean score of family income (M=3200, SD=1.98), onset of illness (M=26.0, SD=6.56), illness duration (M=3.10, SD=1.41), duration of care giving (M=2.3, SD=1.56). Overall ill individual's perception of expressed emotion on their caregivers was found to be decreased in post-assessment (M=29.60, SD=2.9) when compared to the pre-assessment (M=50.0, SD=1.9). It was found to be statistically significant (0.000*= P
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