Early intervention services for non-psychotic mental health disorders: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Worldwide mental health disorders are associated with a considerable amount of human suffering, disability and mortality. Yet, the provision of rapid evidence-based care to mitigate the human and economic costs of these disorders is limited. The greatest progress in developing and delivering early intervention services has occurred within psychosis. There is now growing support for and calls to extend such approaches to other diagnostic groups. The aim of this scoping review is to systematically map the emerging literature on early intervention services for non-psychotic mental health disorders, with a focus on outlining how services are structured, implemented and scaled.

Methods and analysis

The protocol was developed using the guidance for scoping reviews in

SUBMITTER: Richards K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924732 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature