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Is the duration of untreated psychosis temporally stable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Deirdre Jackson ,
Richard Lawoyin ,
Keith Gaynor ,
Mary Clarke ,
Stephen Browne ,
Laoise Renwick ,
Marie Sutton ,
Niall Turner ,
Anthony Kinsella  and
John L. Waddington
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Deirdre Jackson
Affiliation:
DETECT Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, 1 Marine Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Richard Lawoyin
Affiliation:
St. John of God Adult Psychiatric Services, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Keith Gaynor
Affiliation:
DETECT Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, 1 Marine Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Mary Clarke
Affiliation:
St. John of God Adult Psychiatric Services, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Stephen Browne
Affiliation:
St. John of God Adult Psychiatric Services, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Laoise Renwick
Affiliation:
DETECT Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, 1 Marine Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Marie Sutton
Affiliation:
DETECT Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, 1 Marine Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Niall Turner
Affiliation:
DETECT Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, 1 Marine Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Anthony Kinsella
Affiliation:
DETECT Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, 1 Marine Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
John L. Waddington
Affiliation:
Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons, St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Conall Larkin
Affiliation:
St. John of God Adult Psychiatric Services, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, Ireland Department of Psychiatry, University College Dublin, Ireland
Eadbhard O'Callaghan*
Affiliation:
DETECT Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, 1 Marine Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland St. John of God Adult Psychiatric Services, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, Ireland Department of Psychiatry, University College Dublin, Ireland
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*Corresponding author. DETECT Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, 1 Marine Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Tel.: +353 1 2366730; fax: +353 1 2366739. E-mail address: eadbhard@gmail.com (E. O' Callaghan).
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Abstract

Although there is some evidence that duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is geographically stable, few have examined whether the phenomenon is temporally stable. We examined DUP in two cohorts within two discrete time periods (1995–1999 and 2003–2005) spanning a decade in the same geographically defined community psychiatric service with no early intervention programme. Patients were diagnosed by Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID) and we determined the DUP using the Beiser Scale. The DUP of the 240 participants did not differ significantly between study periods.

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PsychosisDuration of untreated psychosisEarly intervention

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European Psychiatry , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , March 2008 , pp. 97 - 99
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Copyright © Elsevier Masson SAS 2008

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