title: The European Prediction of Psychosis Study (EPOS): integrating early recognition and intervention in Europe.
abstract: This paper provides the rationale and design of the European Prediction of Psychosis Study (EPOS), the first European prospective transnational field study of the prodrome and moderating risk/resilience factors of psychosis. As different health systems provide different structures of care, prevention programmes will only be successfully implemented and sustained system-wide, if they can be adapted to the system's special opportunities and needs. EPOS will provide a sound data base for a future evidence-based prevention of psychosis. Data on the recruitment of subjects and on the distribution of the four clinical criteria for an at-risk mental state for psychosis are given.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Germany;
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klosterkötter
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ruhrmann
authors.forename: Frauke
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schultze-Lutter
authors.forename: Raimo K R
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Salokangas
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Linszen
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Birchwood
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Juckel
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vázquèz-Barquero
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hambrecht
authors.forename: Heinrich
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: VON Reventlow