Text Messaging in first episode psychosis
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: F30-F39- Mood [affective] disordersHealth Condition 2: F20-F29- Schizophrenia, schizotypal, delusional, and other non-mood psychotic disorders
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/04/065474
- Lead Sponsor
- JIPMER
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients in the age group 18 to 40 years presenting to JIPMER with first episode of psychosis with duration of illness less than 12 months and less than four weeks of treatment with antipsychotic, antidepressant, or mood stabilizer regardless of recovery.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Caregivers without access to mobile phones
2. Caregivers who cannot read Tamil or english
3. Patients with organic psychosis
4. Psychosis due to substance use
5. Refusal to give informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Text message reminder intervention increases the time to dropout among patients with first episode psychosis compared to treatment as usualTimepoint: 6 MONTHS
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Medication adherence, insight, social and occupational functioningTimepoint: Baseline,1, 3 and 6 months