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    Three year outcomes of an early intervention for psychosis service as compared with treatment as usual for first psychotic episodes in a standard community mental health team. Preliminary results.

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    Authors
    Agius, Mark
    Murphy, Suzanne
    Ramkisson, Roshelle
    Shah, Samir
    Zaman, Rashid
    Affiliation
    Bedfordshire Centre For Mental Health Research
    Bedford Hospital
    Issue Date
    2007
    
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    Abstract
    Forty patients who had been treated for three years in an ad-hoc, assertive treatment team for patients who had suffered a first psychotic episode were compared to forty patients who had been followed up after a first psychotic episode in a community mental health team. All patients had suffered a first or early psychotic episode. The main differences between the two teams was that the ad-hoc team was assertive in its approach, offered more structured psycho-education, relapse prevention and psycho-social interventions, and had a policy of using atypical anti-psychotics at the lowest effective dose. There were many differences in outcome measures at the end of three years between the two groups. The EI patients are more likely to be taking medication at the end of three years. They are more compliant with medication. They are more likely to be prescribed atypical medication. The EI patients are more likely to have returned to work or education. The EI patients are more likely to remain living with their families. They are less likely to suffer depression to the extent of requiring anti-depressants. They appear to commit less suicide attempts. The patients in the EI service also appear to be less likely to suffer relapse and re-hospitalisation, and are less likely to have involuntary admission to hospital. They have systematic relapse prevention plans based on early warning signs. They and their families receive more psycho-education. These indications suggest that the EI patients are at the end of three years better able to manage their illness/vulnerability on their own than the CMHT patients. More patients in the EI group stopped using illicit drugs than in the CMHT group. All the above changes were statistically significant except for the number of patients who stopped using illicit drugs. In this case it is believed that the sample size was too small to demonstrate significance. These results suggest that an ad-hoc early intervention team is more effective than standard community mental health team in treating psychotic illness.
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    Agius, M., Shah, S., Ramkisson, R., Murphy, S. and Zaman, R. (2007) 'Three year outcomes of an early intervention for psychosis service as compared with treatment as usual for first psychotic episodes in a standard community mental health team. Preliminary results' Psychiatria Danubina, 19 (1-2), 10-19
    Publisher
    Medicinska naklada Zagreb
    Journal
    Psychiatria Danubina
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/293712
    PubMed ID
    17603411
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0353-5053
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    Research Centre for Applied Psychology

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