Recommendations and Challenges of the Clinical Services Panel of the PhenX Early Psychosis Working Group

What is it about?

Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) is a promising multi-element treatment for the care of individuals experiencing the onset of schizophrenia. NIMH funded the PhenX measures for Early Psychosis supplement to the PhenX Toolkit to identify low-burden and psychometrically sound measures for use in routine clinical settings in order to facilitate a learning health care model in the delivery of CSC services. Measures covered a range of domains including symptoms, social and occupational functioning, well-being, medication adherence and side effects, physical activity, and experience of shared decision making and person-centered care. Several challenges are also discussed.

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