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PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
Volume 314, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114690
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Affective psychosis; Diagnosis; First-episode; Functional outcome; Symptoms
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Affective psychoses share similarities in terms of sociodemographic variables, symptom progression, and outcomes, suggesting they can be grouped together for treatment strategies.
The concept of affective psychosis regroups psychotic disorders with mood syndrome. Previous studies provided evidence to support a dichotomy between affective and non-affective psychoses although questions remain regarding the utility and validity of such a category to develop clinical guidelines. The aim of this study is to explore similarities and differences within affective psychoses to question whether strategies would apply to all the diagnoses falling under this umbrella term. Using Bayesian model comparison methods, we explored the homogeneity of the characteristics of firstepisode affective patients (N = 77) treated in a specialized 3-year early intervention in psychosis programme. Our analysis revealed affective psychoses display many similarities regarding socio-demographic variables, the course of positive and manic symptoms over three years, and outcome at discharge. Our results did not support the heterogeneous model. However, despite no significant differences in the course of symptoms with the major depressive disorder group, the schizoaffective disorder group displayed a more severe clinical picture at the beginning of the programme and a poorer functional outcome than the two other groups. Absence of clear boundaries and the several similarities within affective psychoses suggest they can usefully be grouped to define treatment strategies that are easily legible by clinicians.
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