Treatment delay and response rate in first episode psychosis

@article{Wunderink2006TreatmentDA,
  title={Treatment delay and response rate in first episode psychosis},
  author={Alexander Wunderink and Fokko J. Nienhuis and Sjoerd Sytema and Durk Wiersma},
  journal={Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica},
  year={2006},
  volume={113}
}
Objective:  There is no consistent evidence of long duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) predicting long time to response (TTR) in first psychosis. This study aims to investigate the predictors of DUP and TTR in a first episode patient population. 
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Gender and duration of untreated psychosis: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
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The result of the first systematic literature review and meta‐analysis on the role of gender in influencing DUP in first‐episode psychosis reports that gender may influence the length of DUP.
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A large clinical epidemiologic sample of first‐episode psychosis and its predictors are described and a 1‐year outcome is described in a large clinical Epidemiologic samples of first-episode psychosis.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the demographic, illness and methodological factors associated with mean and median duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and to establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
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Symptomatic and functional remission in patients with first‐episode psychosis is found to be consistent with prior treatment with antipsychotic medication.
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The findings underline the importance of taking account of the phenomenological overlap between measures of negative symptoms and social function when investigating the effects of DUP.
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The utility of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE)‐42, a self‐report questionnaire, to improve detection of first‐episode psychosis in new referrals to mental health services is examined.
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An overview on state-of-the-art definitions of treatment resistance for each of the diagnoses making up the inhomogeneous diagnostic entity ‘psychosis’ is given to analyze the factors leading to treatment resistance.
Prognostic value of duration of untreated psychosis in long-term outcome of schizophrenia
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A positive correlation was found between DUP and the dynamics of general and positive symptoms and the number of relapses, whereas the relationship between the time and number of re-hospitalizations was marginally significant.
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