Service User Perspectives on the Experience of Illness and Pathway to Care in First-Episode Psychosis: A Qualitative Study Within the TOP Project

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 83-94

  Jansen, Jens Einar ^a,b   Wøldike, Peter Michael ^a,d   Haahr, Ulrik Helt ^b,c   Simonsen, Erik ^a,c  

^a Psychiatric Research Unit   (Denmark)

^b Early Psychosis Intervention Center   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Early intervention; FEP; Pathways to care; Psychosis; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SELF MEDICATION; SHAME; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STIGMA; THERAPY DELAY; TIME TO TREATMENT; YOUNG ADULT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA;

ADOLESCENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL STIGMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925521937     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: 15736709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11126-014-9332-4     Document Type: Article

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