Letter to the EditorRelationships between perceptions of the family environment and of negative life events in recent-onset schizophrenia patients
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Role of the funding source
Funding for this study was provided by NIMH Grants MH 37705 and MH 14584; the NIMH had no further role in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
Contributors
Keith H. Nuechterlein, Kenneth L. Subotnik and Joseph Ventura designed the study and wrote the protocol. Denise Gretchen-Doorly and Gerhard Hellemann undertook the statistical analyses, and Denise Gretchen-Doorly and Nicole R. Detore wrote the first draft manuscript. All authors have contributed to and have approved the final manuscript.
Conflict of interest
All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the clinical and administrative staff and the patients at the Aftercare Research Program for their assistance with data collection for this study.
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