The delay in access to care may not be totally attributed to inadequate management by health professionals, but may be a characteristic of the disease itself, at least in part independent of the organization of the health system.
These results suggest that factors related to the disease itself play an important role in decisions concerning compulsory admission. The high frequency of compulsory admission as the first mode of contact with psychiatric hospital in subjects with psychosis constitutes a major public health issue. Further research on the strategies aimed at avoiding compulsory admission in subjects with incipient psychosis is necessary.
Decreasing the frequency of readmission in the early course of psychosis is a public health priority. Development of psychotherapeutic programs for subjects with early psychosis who have enduring psychotic symptoms at first discharge should be promoted.
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