Publications by authors named "Edwin P F Pang"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the impact of early intervention (EI) services on adults aged 26-55 with adult-onset psychosis, comparing its effectiveness against standard care (SC).
- Results show that a 4-year EI program leads to better social functioning and lower symptom severity compared to SC, particularly notable in the first two years.
- The findings suggest that at least two years of specialized EI treatment is beneficial for this age group, but extending it to four years offers minimal additional advantages.
Introduction: Achieving functional recovery in patients with psychosis is a challenge in clinical practice. Investigating the complex interplay between cognition, symptoms, insight and functional outcome in first episode psychosis will be crucial to understanding the factors leading to better functioning.
Methods: In this 12-month prospective follow-up study, we investigated how cognition, clinical symptoms, and insight into illness affected overall functioning in 160 patients with first episode psychosis recruited from the Early Assessment Service for Young People with Psychosis (EASY) in Hong Kong from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2016.
Background: The long-term consequences of discontinuing antipsychotic medication after successful treatment of first-episode psychosis are not well studied. We assess the relation between early maintenance therapy decisions in first-episode psychosis and the subsequent clinical outcome at 10 years.
Methods: This is a 10 year follow-up study, spanning Sept 5, 2003, to Dec 30, 2014, of a randomised, double-blind trial in seven centres in Hong Kong in which 178 patients with first-episode psychosis with full positive symptom resolution after at least 1 year of antipsychotic treatment were given maintenance treatment (n=89; oral quetiapine 400 mg daily) or early treatment discontinuation (n=89; placebo) for 12 months.
Objective: Relapse is common among patients with psychotic disorders. Identification of relapse predictors is important for decision regarding maintenance medication. Naturalistic studies often identify medication non-adherence as a dominant predictor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study rates of relapse in remitted patients with first episode psychosis who either continued or discontinued antipsychotic drugs after at least one year of maintenance treatment.
Design: 12 month randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial.
Setting: Early psychosis outpatient clinics in Hong Kong.
Background: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) posed an unprecedented threat and a great challenge to health professionals in Hong Kong. The study reported here aimed at investigating the origin of stress and psychological morbidity among frontline healthcare workers in response to this catastrophe.
Method: Self-administered questionnaires were sent to frontline healthcare workers in three hospitals.