Reducing the duration of untreated psychosis and its impact in the U.S.: the STEP-ED study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early intervention services for psychotic disorders optimally interlock strategies to deliver: (i) Early Detection (ED) to shorten the time between onset of psychotic symptoms and effective treatment (i.e. Duration of Untreated Psychosis, DUP); and (ii) comprehensive intervention during the subsequent 2 to 5 years. In the latter category, are teams ('First-episode Services' or FES) that integrate several empirically supported treatments and adapt their delivery to younger patients and caregivers. There is an urgent need to hasten access to established FES in the U.S. Despite improved outcomes for those in treatment, these FES routinely engage patients a year or more after psychosis onset. The Scandinavian TIPS study was able to effectively reduce DUP in a defined geograp

SUBMITTER: Srihari VH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4262386 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature