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Filter by:Psychosis and schizophrenia are common and costly mental health problems. Psychosis is the name given to a group of mental conditions in which cause people to perceive or interpret things differently from those around them. One of the most common causes of psychosis is schizophrenia, a condition that causes a range of psychological symptoms, including hallucinations (hearing and/or seeing things) and delusions (believing something that is not true). One of the main treatment options for psychosis and schizophrenia is long-term treatment with antipsychotic medication, but many patients still find life difficult. Antipsychotic drugs can also have dangerous and unpleasant side effects. Finding alternatives to long-term drug treatment is a priority for patients and services. This study is testing the effects of gradually reducing antipsychotic medication in people with schizophrenia, psychosis or similar conditions in order to see if it can help improve day-to-day functioning and how it affects their chance of suffering a relapse (worsening of their condition).
About 1 in 100 people will experience an episode of psychosis. Some people will only experience one 'psychotic episode' and about a quarter of people make a full recovery. Others will have recurring periods of problems ('relapses'), perhaps at times of particular stress. As people often find psychosis distressing, this study looks at ways to help them stay well in the future. There is growing evidence that 'early signs' interventions can prevent relapses of psychosis. Early signs are things that might happen when people start to become unwell. For example some people start to sleep badly when they are becoming unwell. Most people with psychosis can identify early signs emerging in the weeks before relapse. In early signs interventions, service users are taught to recognise early signs that their mental health may be deteriorating so that they can take action to avoid becoming unwell. Although early signs interventions show promise, the investigators suggest that they can be improved by more accurate assessment of relapse risk. This might be achieved by monitoring 'basic symptoms' in addition to conventional early signs of relapse. Basic symptoms are subtle, subclinical disturbances in one's experience of oneself and the world. Typical basic symptoms include: changes in perceptions, such as increased vividness of colour visionÍž impaired tolerance to certain stressorsÍž difficulty finding or understanding common words. In this study the investigators want to design and test a mobile phone app to help monitor basic symptoms. They hope that the app might help service users to stay well in the future. During the study the investigators will ask participants to use the app once a week for 6 months. At the end of the study they will interview them about their experiences of using the phone app and participating in the study.
The aim of this study is to develop an adapted version of a low-cost parenting program (Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children, PLH) to the specific needs of families in three low- and middle income countries (LMICs) in southeastern Europe (Romania, FYR of Macedonia and Republic of Moldova). The investigators want systematically evaluate key barriers and facilitators at the local, national and international levels that impact prevention of child behavioral disorders. The investigators will prepare training materials adapted to Romanian, Moldovian, Albanian, Macedonian, and Russian and train facilitators and mentor coaches in the delivery of the PLH program in each country. Also, a pre-post study will be conducted testing the feasibility of the program and the evaluation and implementation methods with 40 families at each country site. This includes examination of outcomes related to implementation fidelity, program acceptability, and preliminary program effectiveness on reducing child behavior problems and associated risk factors. This feasibility study is part of a larger implementation project. Developed on the MOST framework (the multiphase optimization strategy), this specific study will reflect the implementation of the first phase. There are two more phases to come: the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children program will be optimized within the three countries by determining which components are most efficacious and cost-effective (phase 2). The optimized PLH programs will be tested in three RCTS in the countries (phase 3).
Psychological treatments may be provided by non-medical health workers (NMHW) to increase accessibility. Task shifting of screening and treatment of non-communicable diseases to non-medical health workers is both effective and cost-effective. A recent review included five randomized controlled trials to assess effectiveness of NMHW provided psychological interventions to treat common mental disorders and depression, and all five trials found the intervention beneficial over usual treatment. The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of psychosocial counselling as practiced by non-medical psychosocial counsellors in improving the outcomes of persons with common mental disorders in a primary health care setting. Patients with psychosocial distress will be randomized to receive either counseling + enhanced usual care or enhanced usual care by health workers. The hypothesis is that adding psychosocial counselling to enhanced usual care, will be more effective than enhanced care alone in reducing the symptoms of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder and in improving day-to-day functioning of clients receiving services in primary health care settings. If proven effective, non-medical health worker led counseling could be an affordable treatment to alleviate psychological suffering and improve functional capacity of Nepalese people.
The proposed study is a 3-site, 12-week, novel, feasibility, investigation of patients who have co-occurring diagnoses of schizophrenia and current substance use disorder (alcohol, cocaine, heroin, or cannabis). Eighty patients will be randomly assigned to switch to brexpiprazole (the brexpiprazole group) or remain on the same antipsychotic treatment (the control group). The study will be conducted at 3 sites in the US. The investigators expect to enroll 80 subjects across 3 sites. UMass Medical School, Worcester MA is the lead site. Sub-sites include Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).
Subtle speech disorganization could be predictive of a transition to schizophrenia of ultra-high-risk patients. The aim of our longitudinal multicenter cohort study is to identify specific linguistic markers of the psychotic transition to validate a french predictive model of this transition using computerized speech analysis techniques
1. Recruitment of medicine students of federal university. 2. Psychiatric interview (MINI) and sclaes application. 3. Protocol of CBT 4. Scales and MINI will be applied at the times of 7, 30 and 90 days after the end of the therapy. 5. Statistical analysis
This study aims to determine if the addition of Sodium Benzoate and / or NAC to TAU will be acceptable and tolerable and result in overall improvement of symptoms, social and cognitive functioning in patients with early schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
Getting a consultation with a psychiatrist within an appropriate time is one of the main issues reported by general practitioners (GP) for patients suffering from mental disorders in primary care. Consultation liaison in psychiatry is a system focused on general medicine-psychiatry collaboration. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the impact of the consultation-liaison on the adequacy of the access time to a psychiatric consultation according to the degree of urgency evaluated by the GP.
Patients with psychoses are randomized either to group treatment (ACT) or individual CBT for 18 sessions.