Five-year outcome of first-episode psychosis before and after the implementation of a modified assertive community treatment programme.

Objective: Assertive community treatment programmes are increasingly common worldwide but without much knowledge of their long-term effect. We investigated whether the implementation of such a programme would improve symptomatic and functional outcome 5 years later.

Methods: Naturalistic cohort study between 1995 and 2000 of all first-episode psychosis patients (n = 144) in Uppsala County, Sweden.

Treatment costs and clinical outcome for first episode schizophrenia patients: a 3-year follow-up of the Swedish "Parachute Project" and two comparison groups.

Objective: To evaluate "need-specific treatment" of first episode schizophrenia syndrome patients.

Method: Sixty-one consecutive first episode schizophrenia syndrome patients were followed over 3 years. They were compared with a Historical "treatment as usual" group (n = 41) and a Prospective group from a high quality social and biological psychiatry centre (n = 25).

One-year outcome in first episode psychosis patients in the Swedish Parachute project.

Objective: Implementing a system designed to treat first episode psychotic (FEP) patients.

Method: Every FEP patient (n=253) from a catchment area of 1.5 million inhabitants were asked to participate in this 5-year project.