Objectives. Expressed emotion and family functioning have been reported as negative impacts of the caregiver burden, mostly in mental disorders. There are limited data available to explain how these factors affect caregiver burden particularly for those caring for rehabilitation patients. In this study, the relationship of family functioning and expressed emotion with the caregiver burden was e...

Objective: To investigate the differences in expressed emotion among families of patients with schizophrenia and develop an instrument for expressed emotion. Sample and Setting: A sample of 35 families was selected by using non-probability sampling technique. It was hypothesized that there would be significant difference in expressed emotion among families of patients with schizophrenia and fam...

When the factor structure and psychometric qualities of the Level of Expressed Emotion scale, an instrument intended to assess patient's perceptions of expressed emotion, were evaluated, three moderately intercorrelated factors emerged, with good internal consistency; these were lack of emotional support, intrusiveness/control, and irritability. This did not quite correspond to the a priori sca...

This paper dis cusses approaches to recognize the emotional user state by analyzing spoken utterances on both, the semantic and the signal level. We classify seven emotions: joy, anger, irritation, fear, disgust, sadness and neutral inner state. The introduced methods analyze the wording, the degree of verbosity, the temporal intention rate as well as the history of user utterances. As prosodic...