F216. sleep quality and clinical improvement in first episode psychosis

DiscussionWe found that improved sleep quality was present in participants who experienced much global clinical improvement over 6 months of CSC. In addition, better sleep quality correlated with reduced depression and anxiety symptoms. Though these findings do not address direction of causality, our findings indicate that improving sleep quality should be a specific focus in treatment of early psychosis. Further analysis will be conducted to investigate the relationship between sleep and clinical improvement using other clinical measures, such as symptom severity, and the dataset will be expanded to include data through the end of 2017.
Source: Schizophrenia Bulletin - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research