BACKGROUND: First-episode psychosis intervention may improve the course and outcome of schizophrenic disorders. AIMS: To describe the Danish National Schizophrenia Project and to measure the outcome of two different forms of intervention after 1 year, compared with standard treatment. METHOD: A prospective, prospective, longitudinal, multicentre investigation included 562 patients, consecutively referred over a 2-year period, with a first episode of psychosis. Patients were allocated to supportive psychodynamic psychotherapy as a supplement to treatment as usual, an integrated, assertive, psychosocial and educational treatment programme or treatment as usual. RESULTS: There was a non-significant tendency towards greater improvement in social functioning in the integrated treatment group and the supportive psychodynamic psychotherapy group compared with the treatment as usual group. Significance was reached for some measures when the confounding effect of drug and alcohol misuse was included. CONCLUSIONS: Integrated treatment and supportive psychodynamic psychotherapy in addition to treatment as usual may improve outcome after 1 year of treatment for people with first-episode psychosis, compared with treatment as usual alone.
BACKGROUND: First-episode psychosis intervention may improve the course and outcome of schizophrenic disorders. AIMS: To describe the Danish National Schizophrenia Project and to measure the outcome of two different forms of intervention after 1 year, compared with standard treatment. METHOD: A prospective, prospective, longitudinal, multicentre investigation included 562 patients, consecutively referred over a 2-year period, with a first episode of psychosis. Patients were allocated to supportive psychodynamic psychotherapy as a supplement to treatment as usual, an integrated, assertive, psychosocial and educational treatment programme or treatment as usual. RESULTS: There was a non-significant tendency towards greater improvement in social functioning in the integrated treatment group and the supportive psychodynamic psychotherapy group compared with the treatment as usual group. Significance was reached for some measures when the confounding effect of drug and alcohol misuse was included. CONCLUSIONS: Integrated treatment and supportive psychodynamic psychotherapy in addition to treatment as usual may improve outcome after 1 year of treatment for people with first-episode psychosis, compared with treatment as usual alone.
Authors: Bent Rosenbaum; Kristian Valbak; Susanne Harder; Per Knudsen; Anne Køster; Matilde Lajer; Anne Lindhardt; Gerda Winther; Lone Petersen; Per Jørgensen; Merete Nordentoft; Anne Helms Andreasen Journal: World Psychiatry Date: 2006-06 Impact factor: 49.548
Authors: Jacek Hochwälder; Maria Mattsson; Ragnhild Holmqvist; Johan Cullberg; Bent Rosenbaum Journal: Qual Life Res Date: 2012-05-15 Impact factor: 4.147
Authors: Muhammad Qutayba Almerie; Muhammad Okba Al Marhi; Muhammad Jawoosh; Mohamad Alsabbagh; Hosam E Matar; Nicola Maayan; Hanna Bergman Journal: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Date: 2015-06-09