title: Effect of an early detection programme on duration of untreated psychosis: part of the Scandinavian TIPS study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  It is unclear whether an early detection programme increases or decreases the number of patients with a long duration of untreated psychosis (DUP), and whether these differ from other patients with a long DUP.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether the number and characteristics of patients with a long DUP in the early detection programme differ from those with a long DUP in the non-early detection programme.
  
  
  METHODS
  We compared the number and characteristics of patients with a DUP > or =2 years in an early detection area and a non-early detection area.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The early detection programme recruited slightly fewer patients with a long DUP than the non-early detection programme. The patients in the early detection programme had lower PANSS scores, but more frequently had a deteriorating course of premorbid social functioning.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An early detection programme does not seem to drain a pool of previously undetected patients with a long DUP. The patients in the early detection programme seem to have a lower symptom level at baseline and to have had a deteriorating premorbid social course.
authors.affiliation: Department of Research and Education, Division of Psychiatry, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo N-0407, Norway. svein.friis@medsin.uio.no
authors.forename: Svein
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Friis
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vaglum
authors.forename: Ulrik
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Haahr
authors.forename: Jan Olav
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Johannessen
authors.forename: Tor K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Larsen
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Melle
authors.forename: Stein
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Opjordsmoen
authors.forename: Bjørn Risovd
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Rund
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Simonsen
authors.forename: Thomas H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: McGlashan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors