Associations between rural/urban status, duration of untreated psychosis and mode of onset of psychosis: a mental health electronic clinical records analysis in the East of England, UK.
Publication: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Kaminska J, Hodgekins J, Lewis JR, Cardinal RN, Oduola S
09 September 2024
Summary
This study examined de-identified NHS data about people having a first episode of psychosis, and looked at how the psychosis began (abruptly or slowly), how long it went untreated, and factors including rural or urban residence. Among such people, some factors differed between rural and urban settings, e.g. employment and living with family. A slow onset of psychosis was associated with a longer time untreated, but rural/urban differences in “time untreated” were not found.
