Deirdre Jackson

TL;DR: Being female, having better premorbid adjustment and fewer negative symptoms were associated with shorter help-seeking delays from the onset of illness, and those with a non-affective psychosis had significantly longer system delays.

TL;DR: These findings suggest that QOL is heavily influenced by depressive symptoms at initial presentation; however, as QOL domains are also influenced by admission status with in-patients being more symptomatic in terms of positive symptoms, subjective QOL assessment may be compromised during the acute phase of illness by both positive and depressive symptom severity.

TL;DR: While the literature concentrates on completed suicide in chronic psychosis, less is understood about attempted suicide in first‐episode psychosis (FEP).

TL;DR: This study confirms that caregiver psychoeducation specifically for first-episode psychosis directly improves knowledge of the illness overall and, in particular, knowledge of medication.

TL;DR: Although General Practitioners have a pivotal role in early detection and treatment of psychosis, there is sparse information on their views of early intervention services and how information related to EI should be delivered.