Post-traumatic stress disorder in parents of patients with schizophrenia following familial violence.

ABSTRACT: The present study conducted in Japan aimed to clarify the relationship between violence directed towards parents by patients with schizophrenia and parents' risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Questionnaire data from 353 parents were analyzed. In total, 84 of the 353 parents (23.8%) reported the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) score ≥ 25 (high-IES-R), indicative of a high risk of developing PTSD. The rate of high-IES-R scores was significantly higher among parents who had experienced an act of violence that was likely to result in severe injury by their adult child with schizophrenia (OR = 2.03; 95% CI 1.09-3.80; using "never experienced" as a reference) and in parents of patients who were hospitalized at the time of the survey (OR = 2.47; 95% CI 1.01-6.06; using "regularl

SUBMITTER: Kageyama M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5983498 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature