Reducing the duration of untreated psychosis and its impact in the U.S.: the STEP-ED study

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Srihari, Vinod H
Tek, Cenk
Pollard, Jessica
Zimmet, Suzannah
Keat, Jane
Cahill, John D
Kucukgoncu, Suat
Walsh, Barbara C
Li, Fangyong
Gueorguieva, Ralitza
Levine, Nina
McGlashan, Thomas H
Woods, Scott W
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Srihari, V. H., C. Tek, J. Pollard, S. Zimmet, J. Keat, J. D. Cahill, S. Kucukgoncu, et al. 2014. “Reducing the duration of untreated psychosis and its impact in the U.S.: the STEP-ED study.” BMC Psychiatry 14 (1): 335. doi:10.1186/s12888-014-0335-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0335-3.Abstract
Background: Early intervention services for psychotic disorders optimally interlock strategies to deliver: (i) Early Detection (ED) to shorten the time between onset of psychotic symptoms and effective treatment (i.e. Duration of Untreated Psychosis, DUP); and (ii) comprehensive intervention during the subsequent 2 to 5 years. In the latter category, are teams (‘First-episode Services’ or FES) that integrate several empirically supported treatments and adapt their delivery to younger patients and caregivers. There is an urgent need to hasten access to established FES in the U.S. Despite improved outcomes for those in treatment, these FES routinely engage patients a year or more after psychosis onset. The Scandinavian TIPS study was able to effectively reduce DUP in a defined geographic catchment. The guiding questions for this study are: can a U.S. adaptation of the TIPS approach to ED substantially reduce DUP and improve outcomes beyond existing FES? Methods/Design The primary aim is to determine whether ED can reduce DUP in the US, as compared to usual detection. ED will be implemented by one FES (STEP) based in southern Connecticut, and usual detection efforts will continue at a comparable FES (PREPR) serving the greater Boston metropolitan area. The secondary aim is to determine whether DUP reduction can improve presentation, engagement and early outcomes in FES care. A quasi-experimental design will compare the impact of ED on DUP at STEP compared to PREPR over 3 successive campaign years. The campaign will deploy 3 components that seek to transform pathways to care in 8 towns surrounding STEP. Social marketing approaches will inform a public education campaign to enable rapid and effective help-seeking behavior. Professional outreach and detailing to a wide variety of care providers, including those in the healthcare, educational and judicial sectors, will facilitate rapid redirection of appropriate patients to STEP. Finally, performance improvement measures within STEP will hasten engagement upon referral. Discussion STEP-ED will test an ED campaign adapted to heterogeneous U.S. pathways to care while also improving our understanding of these pathways and their impact on early outcomes. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02069925. Registered 20 February 2014.Other Sources
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