Clinical outcomes among individuals with a first episode psychosis attending Butabika National Mental Referral Hospital in Uganda: a longitudinal cohort study. A study protocol for a longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Psychotic disorders significantly contribute to high morbidity and mortality. In high-income countries, the predictors of mortality, relapse and barriers to care among patients with first episode psychoses (FEP) have been studied as a means of tailoring interventions to improve patient outcomes. However, little has been done to document relapse rates and their predictors in patients with FEP in low resourced, high disease burdened sub-Saharan Africa.

Objective

We shall estimate the rates of relapse of psychotic symptoms and the factors that predict them in patients with FEP over 4 years.

Methods and analysis

We will assemble a cohort of patients with an FEP seen at the Butabika National Mental Referral Hospital in Kampala over a 4-year period. Participant

SUBMITTER: Akena D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282297 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature