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Casey, Daniel, Brown, Luke J., Gajwani, Ruchika, Islam, Zoebia, Jasani, Rubina, Parsons, Helen, Tah, Priya, Birchwood, M. J. and Singh, Swaran P. (2016) Predictors of engagement in first-episode psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 175 (1-3). pp. 204-208. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2016.04.030 ISSN 0920-9964.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2016.04.030
Abstract
Engagement with psychiatric services is critical for ensuring successful outcomes in patients experiencing a first episode of psychosis (FEP). However, it is not known how sociodemographic factors and patient beliefs about the causes of mental illness affect engagement. This study explored predictors of engagement in a cohort of 103 FEP patients presenting to an early-intervention service. Beliefs that mental illness is caused by social stress or thinking odd thoughts predicted higher engagement scores. Patients with no qualifications were found to have higher engagement scores than those educated to a higher level. Ethnicity, gender, age and socioeconomic factors were not significantly correlated with engagement scores. Duration of untreated illness (DUI) significantly predicted higher engagement scores, but only for values >1220days. Duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) was not a significant predictor of patient engagement scores. Patient beliefs about the causes of mental illness are an important factor to be taken into consideration and may represent a target of interventions to increase engagement in FEP.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Mental health services, Psychoses -- Patients, Schizophrenia -- Patients, Psychoses -- Treatment, Schizophrenia -- Treatment, Ethnicity | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Schizophrenia Research | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0920-9964 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | August 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 175 | ||||||||||
Number: | 1-3 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 204-208 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.schres.2016.04.030 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 July 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 April 2017 |
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