Title |
Baby or bathwater? Referrals of “non-cases” in a targeted early identification intervention for psychosis
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Published in |
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, March 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/s00127-018-1502-5 |
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Authors |
Gerald Jordan, Miriam Kinkaid, Srividya N. Iyer, Ridha Joober, Karen Goldberg, Ashok Malla, Jai L. Shah |
Abstract |
To explore the unintended impact of a targeted case identification (TCI) campaign for first episode psychosis (FEP) on people not experiencing FEP ("non-cases") with respect to referral patterns and reasons for being a non-case. Sources of referral, reasons for being a non-case, and subsequent referral destinations of non-cases were examined before and after a TCI. Following the TCI, a greater proportion of non-cases lived outside the study catchment area. A smaller proportion was referred by the parent hospital's emergency room or had a substance-induced psychosis. TCIs for FEP may have unintended effects, with implications for early case identification and early intervention services. |
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