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Nicole Ricard

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PubMed2003

Determinants of expressed emotion in mothers of schizophrenia patients.

Our objectives were to determine the extent to which symptoms in the schizophrenia patient and personality in the mother lead to a sense of subjective burden in the mother, and to explain variance in two components of Expressed Emotion. Data on symptom severity (PANSS), mothers' personality (NEO-PI), subjective burden (SBAS), and Expressed Emotion (CFI) were gathered from 41 schizophrenia outpatients and their mothers. Approximately one quarter of the variance in Critical Comments (CCs) and Emotional Overinvolvement (EOI) was explained using path analysis. Mothers' CCs were associated with more severe excitement in the patient, with lower Neuroticism, and greater burden in the mother. Higher EOI was explained by greater Conscientiousness and burden in the mother; patient depression had a weak indirect effect on maternal EOI. These results characterize the high EE mother as low in neuroticism and high in conscientiousness with a particular sensitivity to excitement and depression in the patient.

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PubMed2003

The construct validity of the client questionnaire of the Wisconsin Quality of Life Index--a cross-validation study.

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index (W-QLI, Becker, Diamond and Sainfort, 1993) consists of eight scales: satisfaction with life domains, occupational activities, symptoms, physical health, social relations/support, finances, psychological wellbeing, and activities of daily living. The W-QLI has been modified to fit the characteristics of the Canadian population, the universal Canadian health system, and community and social services in Canada and the modified form was named CaW-QLI (Diaz, Mercier, Hachey, Caron, and Boyer, 1999). This study will verify the empirical basis of these theoretical dimensions by applying a cross-validation procedure on two samples, most of whose subjects have a serious mental illness. Confirmatory factor analyses and exploratory factor analyses using the principal component extraction technique with varimax rotation were applied. With the exception of the occupational activities domain, the remaining scales were correctly identified by the factor analyses on each sample. The occupational activities scale should be developed by additional items for representing this scale, which is too brief, and two other items should be revised in order to improve the quality of the instrument.

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PubMed2002

Factor structure of the Multnomah Community Ability Scale.

More and more, Intensive Community Treatment programs in Canada use questionnaires to evaluate the health and social functioning of individuals suffering from a severe mental illness. However, seldom are these tools subject to psychometric analyses to establish their validity on independent samples. This article presents the results of the validation of the French version of the Multnomah Community Ability Scale. Confirmatory factor analyses were carried out to assess the factorial structure. The factor structure, four dimensions with three items, emerging from a first sample was replicated with data from a different sample of clients. Moreover, these four dimensions respect the initial factor solution of the Multnomah Community Ability Scale, which are a) interference with functioning, b) adjustment to living, c) social competence, and d) behavior problems. The study shows the structural validity of this brief questionnaire, which could be useful both for clinical and research settings to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.

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