Reducing the Duration of Untreated Psychosis Through Community Education
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 137
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Latency to Treatment (LTT) a novel interview based assessment tool to measure the Duration of Untreated Psychosis
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The study examines the possible effect of a community campaign to decrease the duration of untreated psychosis in persons with their first episode of a psychotic disorder.
Detailed Description
The study examines whether a community campaign can reduce over time the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) among persons with first episode psychosis (FEP). The DUP of mental health patients with FEP who sought services at a public outpatient or an inpatient facility was assessed for a 15 month period prior to the campaign launch. This serves as the baseline or historical control. The DUP will continue to be assessed for another 3 years. The hypothesis being tested is that there will be a significant decrease in DUP between baseline, one-year, two-year and three-year follow-ups. This study is being carried out with Latinos in Los Angeles County because as a group, particularly among Spanish-speaking immigrants, Latinos are at high risk for prolonged DUP.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Ecologic Or Community
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 15 Years to 65 Years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-4 criteria for a psychotic disorder
- •of Latino origin
Exclusion Criteria
- •has a neurological disorder or suffers from brain trauma
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Latency to Treatment (LTT) a novel interview based assessment tool to measure the Duration of Untreated Psychosis
Time Frame: At the time of recruitment into the study
The time from the onset of psychosis to the time the subject receives appropriate mental health treatment. The metric is number of weeks that the person went without treatment from illness onset. The number of weeks is the variable of interest that will be aggregated.
Secondary Outcomes
- Psychosis literacy, a questionnaire based inquiry for which the respondents answer either open-ended questions (e.g., What is serious mental Illness?) or "Yes-no" questions ("e.g., Can you recognize a serious mental illness in others?)(At the time of recruitment in to study)
Investigators
Steven R. Lopez
Professor
University of Southern California