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April 16, 2009
Specialist intervention service following first-episode psychosis may improve likelihood of vocational recovery, researchers say
MedWire (4/1, Grasmo) reports that, according to a study published in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, "having access to a specialist vocational intervention service following first-episode psychosis improves the likelihood of vocational recovery during the subsequent 12 months."
For the study, researchers from EQUIP, London "followed up 114 first-episode psychosis service users aged on average 24 years during 12 months of engagement with an early intervention service." Altogether, "44 of these patients were resident in an area where vocation intervention was available, and 70 in an area where it was not."
Performing multivariate analysis, the team found that "vocational recovery was significantly associated with having access" to Vocational Support Within Early Intervention (VIBE). In addition, "education beyond basic secondary level" and "being occupied at baseline...were strongly associated with vocational recovery within 12 months."
Posted by admin at April 16, 2009 03:21 PM