Anxiety in relatives of schizophrneic patients: Efficiency of a family treatment programme

This work aims to study the efficiency of a programme of treatment for schizophrenic’s relatives. It evaluates several aspects of anxiety, including the STAI (Spielberger, Gorsuch and Lushene, 1982) and the ISRA (Miguel-Tobal and Cano-Vindel, 1994), in a sample of 25 relatives of persons diagnosed with schizophrenia. The results reveal that, by means of our treatment programme, the relatives reduce their anxiety levels. The way that our programme can help relatives to manage schizophrenia and to improve the results of family treatment, is also discussed.