PMID- 16142509
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20051220
LR  - 20220408
IS  - 0933-7954 (Print)
IS  - 0933-7954 (Linking)
VI  - 40
IP  - 9
DP  - 2005 Sep
TI  - Background factors as determinants of satisfaction with care among first-episode 
      psychosis patients.
PG  - 749-54
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of demographic and psychosocial background 
      factors and psychiatric and functional status before and at admission on the 
      patients' satisfaction with care (PSC) among first-episode psychosis (FEP) 
      patients. METHOD: One year after entering the Parachute Project, 134 FEP patients 
      completed a patient satisfaction questionnaire. The association with demographic 
      and psychosocial background factors, together with psychiatric and functional 
      status before and after admission, was analysed. RESULTS: Twenty-nine per cent of 
      the variance of PSC was explained by factors such as educational level, social 
      network, duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and Global Assessment of 
      Functioning (GAF) the year prior to onset. Negative symptoms and lack of hope at 
      admission were also predictors of PSC. The strongest predictor was DUP. 
      CONCLUSION: Affecting the public knowledge in psychiatric problems and 
      psychiatric treatment, together with early intervention strategies aiming to 
      decrease the prodromal and DUP period among FEP patients, can positively 
      influence the patients' experience of given care. By increasing the knowledge of 
      available psychiatric treatment, the sense of powerlessness might decrease among 
      the affected persons, and the possibility of early help seeking might increase.
FAU - Mattsson, Maria
AU  - Mattsson M
AD  - Dept. of Public Health Sciences, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska 
      Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. maria.mattsson@psyk.nlpo.sll.se
FAU - Lawoko, Stephen
AU  - Lawoko S
FAU - Cullberg, J
AU  - Cullberg J
FAU - Olsson, Ulf
AU  - Olsson U
FAU - Hansson, Lars
AU  - Hansson L
FAU - Forsell, Yvonne
AU  - Forsell Y
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20050905
PL  - Germany
TA  - Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
JT  - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
JID - 8804358
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Attitude to Health
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mental Health Services
MH  - *Patient Satisfaction
MH  - Psychotic Disorders/diagnosis/psychology/*therapy
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Time Factors
EDAT- 2005/09/06 09:00
MHDA- 2005/12/21 09:00
CRDT- 2005/09/06 09:00
PHST- 2005/04/20 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2005/09/06 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/12/21 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/09/06 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s00127-005-0945-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2005 Sep;40(9):749-54. doi: 
      10.1007/s00127-005-0945-7. Epub 2005 Sep 5.