Adolescent psychosis risk symptoms predicting persistent psychiatric service use: A 7-year follow-up study

ConclusionsIn a prospective follow-up of a large sample using comprehensive mental health records, our findings indicate that assessing psychosis risk symptoms in clinical adolescent settings at the beginning of treatment could predict long-term need for care beyond diagnostic information. Our findings replicate the previous findings that positive psychosis risk symptoms are unspecific markers of severity of psychopathology. Also psychosis risk symptoms of the negative, disorganization, and general clusters are approximately as strongly associated with prolonged psychiatric service use in the upcoming years.

Source: European Psychiatry - November 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research