Changes in symptom content from a clinical high-risk state to conversion to psychosis.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

There is an interest in the transition to psychosis for those at clinical high risk of developing psychosis. This transition is typically determined by a change in severity of the attenuated symptoms as they reach a psychotic level. However, any concomitant change in the content of such symptoms has not been examined. The current study aimed to examine potential qualitative changes in the symptom content from a clinical high-risk state to a first episode of psychosis.

Methods

Sixty-seven individuals, who had been identified as meeting the attenuated psychotic syndrome based on the Structured Interview of Psychosis-Risk Syndromes and who later developed a full-blown psychosis were included in the study. Comprehensive clinical vignettes were written and raters were trained

SUBMITTER: Marshall C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797503 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature