Camberwell Family Interview
Camberwell Family Interview is a type of a semi-structured interview form used to analyze emotional expressions of caregivers specifically dealing with patients of adult psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia as well as the patients and their families. The interview generally assesses the patient's and their relatives’ behavior in the period three months before they are hospitalized and is generally conducted within a few days after hospitalization.[1][2]
Applications
The CFI technique examines the relatives of patients regarding the difficulties they have faced and are facing because of the disease. It helps in determining the history of the patient about the disease, hospitalization history, and symptoms.[2][3]
Criticism
CFI is criticized for being impractical as an effective technique in clinical practice to measure expressed emotions (EE). This criticism is based on the fact that the technique requires highly trained professionals to interview subjects (patients and their family members) and requires approximately 3 hours per assessment including the subsequent coding of the interviews.[4]
References
- ^ Köttgen, Charlotte; Mollenhauer, Karin; Sönnichsen, Ines; Jurth, Roland; Hand, Iver (1985), Pichot, Pierre; Berner, Peter; Wolf, R.; Thau, K. (eds.), "The Camberwell-Family-Interview as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tool", Epidemiology and Community Psychiatry, Springer US, pp. 517–524, doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-4700-2_78, ISBN 978-1-4684-4700-2
- ^ a b ÇETİNKAYA DUMAN, Zekiye; KUŞCU, M. Kemal; ÖZGÜN, Serkan (December 2013). "Comparison between Camberwell Family Interview and Expressed Emotion Scale in Determining Emotions of Caregivers of Schizophrenic Patients". Nöro Psikiyatri Arşivi. 50 (4): 301–305. doi:10.4274/npa.y5832. ISSN 1300-0667. PMC 5363420. PMID 28360561.
- ^ Scott, Stephen; Campbell, Caroline (2000). "Expressed Emotion about children: reliability and validity of a Camberwell Family Interview for Childhood (CFI-C)". International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 9 (1): 3–10. doi:10.1002/mpr.75. ISSN 1557-0657. S2CID 144676778.
- ^ Ng, Siu-Man; Yeung, Chi-Hung; Gao, Siyu (2019-02-01). "A concise self-report scale can identify high expressed emotions and predict higher relapse risk in schizophrenia". Comprehensive Psychiatry. 89: 1–6. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2018.12.001. ISSN 0010-440X. PMID 30550992.