Clinical Correlates Of Initial Treatment Disengagement In First-Episode Psychosis
Key Messages
A longer duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is believed to contribute to poor recovery outcomes as well as to social losses, such as incarcerations and homelessness.
More than half (58%) of adults with serious mental illness disengage from treatment after a hospitalization.
There is little known about initial disengagement from treatment after hospitalization among patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP).
Among 33 patients assessed 6 months after hospitalization for FEP, 18 patients (54.5%) attended <3 outpatient appointments in those 6 months (defined as …
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