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September 16, 2025European Psychiatry0 citationsOpen Access

21-Year Follow-Up on Diagnostic Stability in First-Episode Psychosis

Long-term diagnostic stability, predictors of diagnostic change, and time until diagnostic change of first-episode psychosis: a 21-year follow-up study

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DDD. DonnerLJLucía JandaEJElena García de Jalón

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Longitudinal study assesses diagnostic stability and predictors of change in first-episode psychosis cases, indicating major implications for treatment.

Key Points

  • Overall diagnostic stability was found to be 47.7%, highlighting the challenges in diagnosing first-episode psychosis.
  • Key predictors of diagnostic change to schizophrenia included family history and cognitive factors, emphasizing their importance in clinical settings.
  • Utilizing logistic regression and survival analysis, the study followed 243 subjects over 21 years to assess diagnostic outcomes.
  • Findings suggest that non-schizophrenic diagnoses may need to be treated as provisional, which calls for improved diagnostic practices.
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Donner et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d4507931b076d99fa57cc5https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.1815
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