Context and contact: a comparison of patient and family engagement with early intervention services for psychosis in India and Canada.

CONCLUSIONS: This is the first investigation of early psychosis service engagement across a HIC and an LMIC. Patient and family engagement was strikingly higher in Chennai. Maintaining family contact may benefit patient engagement, irrespective of context. Findings also suggest that differential service utilization may underpin cross-cultural variations in psychosis outcomes.
PMID: 32981550 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Psychological Medicine - September 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Iyer SN, Malla A, Taksal A, Maraj A, Mohan G, Ramachandran P, Margolese HC, Schmitz N, Joober R, Rangaswamy T Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research