AbstractObjet : Recently, Evidence Based Practice (EBP) has become important in order to improvea quality of social services and professional accountability. We spotlight Expressed Emotion(EE) of family to aim to construct Evidence based family support and demonstrate \u27evidence\u27for family with children with disability. EE was begun to study about family impact onschizophrenia patients, and is already established. Now it is applied to another disease anddisabilities, and that studies applied for family with children with disability are increasing.This is a first study to investigate EE of family with children with disability in this country.Methods : Subjects were 42 mothers\u27 EE whose children used a day service for child lived. EEwas evaluated using Five Minutes Speech Sample (FMSS). Quality of life (QOL) was evaluatedusing SF-36v2 as subscale. Result : It is possible that EE of family with children withdisability is different from disability, and it is necessity to change cut-off-point of high EEbecause of Japanese characteristic. In addition, family QOL is lower than national standardexcept Physical functioning (PF), and three subcategories of Role physical (RP), Mental Health(MH), and General Health perceptions (GH) is significant difference between Low EE and HighEE. Conclusion : We obtained important evidences that it should focus disability characteristicand family QOL to support family with children with disability through this study
