Don't turn your back on the symptoms of psychosis: A proof-of-principle, quasi-experimental public health trial to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis in Birmingham, UK

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Connor, Charlotte ^a,b   Birchwood, Max ^a,b   Palmer, Colin ^a   Channa, Sunita ^a   Freemantle, Nick ^c   Lester, Helen ^b   Patterson, Paul ^a,b   Singh, Swaran ^d  

^a BIRMINGHAM AND SOLIHULL MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duration of untreated psychosis; Early detection; First episode psychosis; Public mental health campaign; Youth mental health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BENCHMARKING; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 84874095017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-67     Document Type: Article

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