[Duration of untreated psychosis as predictive and prognostic factor in the course of first episode psychosis].

Introduction: Recently, many studies have focused on the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) in order to clarify if DUP could be one of the factors that would influence prognosis of psychotic disease.

Material And Methods: We present a one year follow - up study with 90 medication native, first episode psychotic patients. The likely prognosis factors that could influence in the outcome of the disease were measured.