@article{2b80ae5f0e534ea08429272d107dbab3,
title = "The key to reducing duration of untreated first psychosis: information campaigns",
abstract = "The TIPS early intervention program reduced the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) in first-episode schizophrenia from 16 to 5 weeks in a health care sector using a combination of easy access detection teams (DTs) and a massive information campaign (IC) about the signs and symptoms of psychosis. This study reports what happens to DUP and presenting schizophrenia in the same health care sector when the IC is stopped.",
keywords = "Adult, Affect, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Disease Progression, Female, Health Education, Health Promotion, Humans, Information Dissemination, Male, Program Development, Psychotic Disorders, Questionnaires, Severity of Illness Index, Time Factors",
author = "Inge Joa and Johannessen, {Jan Olav} and Bj{\o}rn Auestad and Svein Friis and Thomas McGlashan and Ingrid Melle and Stein Opjordsmoen and Erik Simonsen and Per Vaglum and Larsen, {Tor K}",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1093/schbul/sbm095",
language = "English",
volume = "34",
pages = "466--72",
journal = "Schizophrenia Bulletin",
issn = "0586-7614",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "3",
}