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FRANCIS E. KELLEY, MSSW

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;10(4):389-394.

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It is generally believed that when discharged patients either do poorly in the community or are rehospitalized it may be because of the negative attitude of relatives. Freeman and Simmons^3,4 found that patients living with wives performed at a higher level while in the community than patients living in a parental home. Both groups, however, were readmitted at the same rate. Brown et al¹ found that successful outcome was associated with the social group to which the patients went—patients staying with siblings or in lodgings made a better post-hospital adjustment than those staying with parents, with wives or in large hostels. In each of the above studies there was some question as to the patient's condition at the time of release and it is possible that the results can be partly attributed to this fact. Wives may demand that their husbands be . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BROCKTON, MASS

Veterans Administration Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 23, 1963.

This study was supported by the Veterans Administration Psychiatric Evaluation Project, Dr. Lee Gurel, Director, Washington, DC.

For a detailed description of the PEP Symptom Rating Scale modification used to establish whether patients were in remission, see Walker and Kelley.11

All in-community ratings were made by the present investigator. Reliability of these ratings compared to the ratings made at the time of discharge by the project psychologist seemed satisfactory as indicated by a tetrachoric r of 0.86 based on a sample of 20 newly admitted patients seen jointly by both of us with each of us alternating the role of interviewer and making independent ratings of the patients.

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