id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8186 Expressed emotion - Wikipedia .html text/html 2209 317 55 A high level of EE in the home can worsen the prognosis in patients with mental illness, such as schizophrenia and social anxiety disorder,[4][5] or act as a potential risk factor for the development of psychiatric disease.[6] Higher degrees of expressed emotion in the environment of a patient have been empirically found to be robust predictors of relapse of schizophrenia, eating disorder, and mood disorders.[7][2] It has also been investigated as a contributor to the progress of unipolar depression, bipolar disorder, dementia, and diabetes.[7] Interventions to improve outcomes include reducing contact with high-EE caregivers, and educating and supporting families so they can reduce high-EE behavior.[2] It also found that those that lived with their mothers were more likely to be readmitted if the mothers did not work outside the home, suggesting that the duration of exposure to certain family members was related to relapse.[2] Brown devised the five dimensions of expressed emotion to quantify the interpersonal environmental exposures of patients.[2] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8186.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8186.txt