The European Prediction of Psychosis Study (EPOS): integrating early recognition and intervention in Europe.
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.
Klosterkötter
Joachim
J
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Germany;
Ruhrmann
Stephan
S
Schultze-Lutter
Frauke
F
Salokangas
Raimo K R
RK
Linszen
Don
D
Birchwood
Max
M
Juckel
Georg
G
Morrison
Anthony
A
Vázquèz-Barquero
José Luis
JL
Hambrecht
Martin
M
VON Reventlow
Heinrich
H