The association between treatment beliefs and engagement in care in first episode psychosis

Engagement with online psychosocial interventions for psychosis: A review and synthesis of relevant factors

“… Perivoliotis et al (2010) UK Psychosis outpatients 141 CBTp Completion Completing the course of CBT & completing follow up Qs. Pre-treatment levels of overall cognitive insight, positive symptoms (severity of delusions or voice hearing experiences) Perry et al (2019) UK FEP 98 EIS Engagement, high/low engagement SOLES total score, ≥/≤5 SOLES total score Positive associations between engagement (continuous and binary) and biological, psychological and community treatment beliefs Schimmelmann et al (2006) Australia FEP adolescents 134 EIS (Service) disengagement Active refusal of contact or untraceable Disengagement associated with lower baseline severity of illness, higher baseline global functioning, living without family at baseline, a diagnosis other than schizophrenia, persistent substance use during treatment Age, gender, family history of mental illness, past suicide attempts, psychiatric history, DUP, insight at baseline, comorbid diagnosis at baseline (including SUD), severity of illness or global functioning at discharge Spidel et al (2015) Canada EP, PD (Forensic inpatients) 117 EPP, inpatient forensic hospital Treatment adherence SES total score and availability, collaboration, help-seeking and treatment adherence subscales FEP group: poor service engagement associated with childhood physical abuse, more psychopathic traits, history of physical violent behaviour, more severe symptomatology. In Forensic: poor service engagement associated with a history of childhood abuse, more sever symptomatology Regular alcohol use, regular drug use.…”