| Literature DB >> 24210666 |
Mythily Subramaniam1, Edimansyah Abdin2, Lye Yin Poon3, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar2, Helen Lee3, Siow Ann Chong2, Swapna Verma3.
Abstract
The current study aimed to establish the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among participants with First Episode Psychosis (FEP) in Singapore, to elucidate the sociodemographic and clinical correlates of HRQoL, and ascertain the change after 1-year of treatment. Two hundred and forty one patients accepted into an Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP) from April 2009 to June 2011 and who had completed baseline EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) assessments were included in this analysis. The mean (S.D.) EQ-5D index at baseline was 0.788 (0.258). One hundred thirty five (56.0%) patients who completed the EQ-5D assessment at the 12-month follow-up had a significantly higher EQ-5D index as compared to baseline. EQ-5D index was significantly higher among those patients who met criteria for remission at the 12-month interval than those who were not in remission. Our results suggest that the EQ-5D is responsive to improvement as it corresponded well to objective ratings of remission in our patients with FEP.Entities:
Keywords: Duration of untreated Psychosis; EQ-5D; Early psychosis; Remission; Singapore
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Year: 2013 PMID： 24210666 DOI： 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.10.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatry Res ISSN： 0165-1781 Impact factor: 3.222