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01-10-2012 | Original Paper

Early Intervention Services for Psychosis and Time Until Application for Disability Income Support: A Survival Analysis

Authors: Terry Krupa, Kola Oyewumi, Suzanne Archie, J. Stuart Lawson, Joan Nandlal, Gretchen Conrad

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 5/2012

Abstract

Ensuring the financial security of individuals recovering from first episode psychosis is imperative, but disability income programs can be powerful disincentives to employment, compromising the social and occupational aspects of recovery. Survival analysis and Cox regression analysis were used to examine the rate at which individuals served by early intervention for psychosis (EIP) services apply for government disability income benefits and factors that predict rate of application. Health records for 558 individuals served by EIP programs were reviewed. Within the first year of receiving services 30% will make application for disability income; 60% will do so by 5 years. Rate of application is predicted by rate of hospital admission, financial status and engagement in productivity roles at the time of entry to EIP service. The findings suggest the need to examine the extent to which the recovery goals of EI services are undermined by early application for government income support. They also suggest the need to develop best practice guidelines related to ensuring the economic security of individuals served.

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Title: Early Intervention Services for Psychosis and Time Until Application for Disability Income Support: A Survival Analysis
Authors: Terry Krupa
Kola Oyewumi
Suzanne Archie
J. Stuart Lawson
Joan Nandlal
Gretchen Conrad
Publication date: 01-10-2012
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 5/2012
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-012-9496-z

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