Service User Perceived Criticism and Warmth (SU-PCaW) Questionnaire

Figures & data

Table 1. Measures to capture expressed emotion (EE) in the family environment.

					EE components
Measure	Completed by	Interview/ questionnaire	Identifies high/low EE		Criticism	Hostility	EOI	Positive Remarks	Warmth
CFI	FM	Interview		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
FMSS	FM	Interview		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
FQ	FM	Questionnaire		✓	✓		✓
FQi	SU	Questionnaire		✓	✓		✓
FAS	FM	Questionnaire		✓	✓	✓
PC	FM, SU	Questionnaire			✓
PW	FM, SU	Questionnaire							✓
SAS-III	FM	Questionnaire		✓					✓
FPS	FM	Questionnaire		✓
LEE	SU	Questionnaire		✓✓	✓		✓

Abbreviations: FM = Family Member/Carer; SU = service user EE = Expressed Emotion; EOI = Emotional-Over-Involvement; CFI = Camberwell Family Interview; FMSS = Five Minute Speech Sample; FAS = Family Attitude Scale; FQi = Family Questionnaire for service users; FQ = Family Questionnaire; PC = Perceived Criticism Questionnaire; PW = Perceived Warmth Questionnaire; SAS-III = Social Adjustment Scale; FPS = Family Perceptions Scale; LEE = Level of Expressed Emotion.

Figure 1. Service User Perceived Criticism and Warmth Questionnaire (SU-PCaW).

Table 2. A summary of the sample characteristics.

Variables of Interest	Service User N (%) or M (SD) N = 45
Age Mean	22.04 (5.18)
Range (years)	16–35
Gender (male)	24 53.3%
Ethnicity (N, %)
White British/ Irish	39 (86.7%)
Mixed	4 (8.9%)
Asian	1 (2.2%)
Black/Black British	1 (2.2%)
Treatment ^δ (IFCBT)	23 (51.1%)

Abbreviations. N = number, M = mean, SD = standard deviation, IFCBT = Individual Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Family Intervention.

^δParticipants were randomly allocated to either combined Individual Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Family Intervention (IFCBT) or enhanced treatment as usual (ETAU).

Table 3. Principal component analysis for service user perceived criticism and warmth questionnaire (SU-PCaW).

Item	Component
	PW	PC
3*	.805
4*	.658
5	.821
7	.706
9	.871
1*		.823
2*		.715
6		.638
8		.815
10		.409

*Questions 1 and 2 already included from Hooley and Teasdale (1989) and questions 3 and 4 from Tsai et al. (2015).

Abbreviations. PC = Perceived Criticism, PW = Perceived Warmth.

Figure 2. Service user and family/carer mean expressed emotion (EE) respective of their group allocation at all three-time points.

Hooley, J. M., & Teasdale, J. D. (1989). Predictors of relapse in unipolar depressives: Expressed emotion, marital distress, and perceived criticism. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 98(3), 229–235. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-843X.98.3.229

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Tsai, K. H., Lopez, S., Marvin, S., Zinberg, J., Cannon, T. D., O’Brien, M., & Bearden, C. E. (2015). Perceptions of family criticism and warmth and their link to symptom expression in racially/ethnically diverse adolescents and young adults at clinical high risk for psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 9(6), 476–486. https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.12131

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