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Psychological distress and complaints of relatives living with agoraphobic and obsessive compulsive patients were examined. Nineteen per cent of relatives reported clinical levels of psychological distress. Relatives' complaints about patients were focused on four primary areas of patient behaviour: chronic sick role/family burden, anxiety symptoms, interpersonal problems, and problems in their relationship with the patient. The focus of complaints and relatives' self-report of psychological distress were not correlated with each other or with socioeconomic status, various measures of patients' initial symptom severity, or relatives' criticism or hostility as measured by the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI). However, relatives' distress was significantly correlated with a measure of patients' initial overall functioning and marginally correlated with relatives' emotional overinvolvement as measured by the CFI.

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Author

Keith D. Renshaw; Dianne L. Chambless; Thomas L. Rodebaugh; Gail Steketee

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1063-3995)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)