Care Pathways and Initial Engagement in Early Psychosis Intervention Services Among Youths and Young Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Broad efforts to improve access to early psychosis intervention (EPI) services may not address health disparities in pathways to care and initial engagement in treatment.

Objective

To understand factors associated with referral from acute hospital-based settings and initial engagement in EPI services.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used electronic medical record data from all patients aged 16 to 29 years who were referred to a large EPI program between January 2018 and December 2019. Statistical analysis was performed from March 2022 to February 2023.

Exposures

Patients self-reported demographic information in a structured questionnaire. The main outcome for the first research question (referral source) was an expos

SUBMITTER: Polillo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10500372 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature