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Predicting Relapse in Schizophrenia: the Development and Implementation of an Early Signs Monitoring System Using Patients and Families as Observers, a Preliminary Investigation

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Birchwood, M., Smith, Jo, Macmillan, F., Hogg, B., Prasad, R., Harvey, C. and Bering, S. (1989) Predicting Relapse in Schizophrenia: the Development and Implementation of an Early Signs Monitoring System Using Patients and Families as Observers, a Preliminary Investigation. Psychological Medicine, 19 (3). pp. 649-656. ISSN Print 0033-2917 Online 1469-8978

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Recognition of prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia offers the potential of early intervention to avert relapse and re-hospitalization (Carpenter & Heinrichs, 1983). The present study investigated how a strategy to detect prodromal signs might be effectively applied in the clinical setting. A standard monitoring system was developed involving completion of a new early signs scale (ESS) measuring changes in key symptoms phenomenologically (self-report) and behaviourally (observer report). The ESS was subject to rigorous psychometric evaluation and tested in a prospective pilot investigation. The ESS reliably identified early signs and predicted relapse with an overall accuracy of 79%. Several different patterns of relapse were identified. Observer reports compensated for loss of insight in some patients. In two cases where early signs indices were detected, prompt increases in medication appeared to arrest relapse and avert readmission. The ESS offers itself as a reliable, valid and administratively feasible measure and demonstrates considerable potential as a cost-effective procedure for secondary prevention.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text via the UW online library search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	prodromal signs, monitoring system, schizophrenia, patients and families as observers, relapse, secondary prevention, Early Signs Scale, ESS
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Allied Health and Community
Related URLs:	Publisher UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Tanya Buchanan
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2017 09:54
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 17:19
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5838

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