Longitudinal predictors of stigma in first-episode psychosis: Mediating effects of depression.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Stigma is commonly experienced among individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and has been shown to be a barrier to help-seeking and behavioural service utilization. Given the established relationships between stigma, barriers to treatment, and poorer psychiatric outcomes including depression and psychotic symptoms, we examined the relationships between symptoms of depression, positive and negative symptoms, and the emergence of stigma longitudinally among a sample of first-episode of psychosis (FEP) participants in the United States.

Methods

Data were obtained from the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode project of National Institute of Mental Health's Early Treatment Program. Participants (n = 404) included adults between ages 15 and 40 with schizo

SUBMITTER: Bornheimer LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10731984 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature