The BARO covers nine domains of problems and functioning: delinquent behavior, environmental conditions, psychosocial development, externalizing problems, internalizing problems, substance use, functioning within the family and school and leisure-time functioning.
Sixty-eight consecutively enrolled individuals with first-episode psychosis completed assessments of symptomatology, social functioning, educational/vocational functioning, cognitive functioning, substance use, and service utilization upon enrollment in EPICENTER and after 6 months of EPICENTER care.
The mechanism by which these inhibitory substances function is not yet understood; some effect upon the nervous system presumably is involved.
Assessments focus on substance use; mental function; behavioural problems; and functioning regarding family, school, peers and leisure time.
Thus, in some communities, more than others, substance use may function as a coping strategy.
On average, individuals participating in EPICENTER care showed improvements in symptomatology, social functioning, educational/vocational functioning, cognitive functioning, and substance use during the first 6 months of treatment.
Information was gathered on social support, family functioning, substance use and abuse, depression, self-efficacy, and general health status.
Tertiary measures are used to assess the effects of medication acceptance on patients' psychosocial functioning, substance use, quality of life and side effects of the antipsychotic medication.
Additionally, the effectiveness of the experimental intervention will be assessed in terms of psychosocial functioning, substance use, medication side-effects, quality of life, motivation, cost-utility and patients' and clinicians' attitudes towards M4M.
Participants completed a series of surveys at specific time intervals to assess the effects of the housing first intervention on such outcomes as mental health, substance use, social functioning, community integration and criminal justice system involvement.
What proportion of HF participants follow expected trajectories of change in physical and psychological community integration, mental health symptomatology, substance use, community functioning and quality of life 6 months after program enrolment?
