PMID- 26878951 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161213 LR - 20161230 IS - 1876-2026 (Electronic) IS - 1876-2018 (Linking) VI - 5 IP - 1 DP - 2012 Mar TI - The Singapore Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP): A programme evaluation. PG - 63-7 LID - 10.1016/j.ajp.2012.02.001 [doi] AB - The alarmingly long duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) in Singapore and probable severe consequences were the impetus for establishing the Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP) in 2001. In 2007, EPIP became a part of the National Mental Health Blueprint. Here, we report some of the programme's outcomes. METHOD: Consecutive patients accepted into EPIP from April 2007 to March 2011 were included. Programme inclusion criteria were: (1) age between 15 and 41 years, (2) first-episode psychotic disorder with no prior or minimal treatment, (3) no current history of substance abuse, and (4) no history of major medical or neurological illness. EPIP has incorporated an evaluation component to the clinical programme by administering regular structured assessments and generating operational statistics from our hospital's data systems. RESULTS: Between April 2007 to March 2011, 815 patients had been accepted and 795 had baseline data. 50.8% (404/795) were males, with mean age of 27 years (+/-6.5 years). Mean DUP (SD) was 14.6 (+/-25.2) months and median was 6 months. At the end of two years, 71.1% (202/284) achieved symptomatic remission as defined by the Schizophrenia Working Group, 84.9% (241/284) scored 61 or more on Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) disability and 76.5% (274/358) had returned back to school or were gainfully employed. CONCLUSION: Being a national programme, EPIP had articulated process and outcome indicators to our stakeholders, and a periodic report card on these outcomes makes us accountable to our funders, our patients and their families. CI - Copyright A(c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Verma, Swapna AU - Verma S AD - Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP), Institute of Mental Health, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539 747, Singapore. FAU - Poon, Lye Yin AU - Poon LY AD - Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP), Institute of Mental Health, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539 747, Singapore. FAU - Subramaniam, Mythily AU - Subramaniam M AD - Research Unit, Institute of Mental Health, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539 747, Singapore. FAU - Abdin, Edimansyah AU - Abdin E AD - Research Unit, Institute of Mental Health, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539 747, Singapore. FAU - Chong, Siow Ann AU - Chong SA AD - Research Unit, Institute of Mental Health, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539 747, Singapore. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20120303 PL - Netherlands TA - Asian J Psychiatr JT - Asian journal of psychiatry JID - 101517820 RN - 0 (Antipsychotic Agents) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Affective Disorders, Psychotic/therapy MH - Antipsychotic Agents/*therapeutic use MH - Case Management MH - *Counseling MH - *Early Medical Intervention MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - *Patient Education as Topic MH - Program Evaluation MH - Psychotic Disorders/*therapy MH - Remission Induction MH - Schizophrenia/*therapy MH - Schizophrenia, Paranoid/*therapy MH - Singapore MH - Treatment Outcome MH - Young Adult EDAT- 2012/03/01 00:00 MHDA- 2016/12/15 06:00 CRDT- 2016/02/17 06:00 PHST- 2011/12/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/01/31 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2012/02/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/02/17 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/03/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/12/15 06:00 [medline] AID - S1876-2018(12)00014-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ajp.2012.02.001 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Asian J Psychiatr. 2012 Mar;5(1):63-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2012.02.001. Epub 2012 Mar 3.