Early prevention treatment cited.LONDON -- Early intervention ear·ly intervention n. Abbr. EI A process of assessment and therapy provided to children, especially those younger than age 6, to facilitate normal cognitive and emotional development and to prevent developmental disability or delay. programmes for non-affective psychosis disorders results in higher remission rates at 75 per cent and high retention at 81.5 per cent says a recent study of a Canadian intervention program, as reported in the Australian and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. Journal of Psychiatry. The article is based on a paper prepared by Ashok Malla, Ross Norman, Terry McLean, Derek Scholten and Laurel Townsend of the London Health Sciences Centre The London Health Sciences Centre is a major teaching hospital in London, Ontario, Canada. It operates three hospital facilities:
After a one-year treatment for patients treated in the London program, the study found; * that higher remission and retention rates occur with greater use of low dose, predominantly novel and psychotic drugs. * "highly significant improvements were also reported for self-rated quality of life and cognition," the study notes. * the duration of untreated psychosis and premorbid premorbid /pre·mor·bid/ (-mor´bid) occurring before development of disease. pre·mor·bid adj. Preceding the occurrence of disease. adjustment were associated with improvement in positive and negative symptoms Negative symptoms Symptoms of schizophrenia characterized by the absence or elimination of certain behaviors. DSM-IV specifies three negative symptoms: affective flattening, poverty of speech, and loss of will or initiative. Mentioned in: Schizophrenia , respectively. * systematic changes to improve access to the service resulted in substantial increases in the number of cases treated along with a more than 50 per cent decline in duration of untreated psychosis. In its conclusion, the study stresses that phase-specific treatment and case identification strategies to reduce the delay in treatment "are likely to substantially improve outcome in non-affective psychotic disorders compared with what has been reported with traditional approaches" of treatment. |
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