The RAISE early treatment program for first-episode psychosis: background, rationale, and study design.
The RAISE early treatment program for first-episode psychosis: background, rationale, and study design.
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10.4088/jcp.14m09289
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2015-03
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Robinson DG
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Kane JM;Schooler NR;Marcy P;Correll CU;Brunette MF;Mueser KT;Rosenheck RA;Addington J;Estroff SE;Robinson J;Penn DL;Robinson DG
The premise of the NIMH RAISE-ETP (Early Treatment Program) is to combine state-of-the-art pharmacologic and psychosocial treatments delivered by a well-trained, multidisciplinary team, in order to significantly improve the functional outcome and quality of life for first episode psychosis patients. The study is being conducted in non-academic (“real world’) treatment settings, using primarily extant reimbursement mechanisms. We developed a treatment model and training program based on extensive literature review and expert consultation. Our primary aim is to compare the experimental intervention to “usual care” on quality of life. Secondary aims include comparisons on remission, recovery and cost effectiveness. Patients 15–40 years old with a first episode of schizophrenia; schizoaffective disorder; schizophreniform disorder, psychotic disorder NOS, or brief psychotic disorder according to DSM IV and no more than six months of antipsychotic medications were eligible. Patients are followed for a minimum of two years, with major assessments conducted by blinded, centralized raters using live, two-way video. We selected 34 clinical sites in 21 states and utilized cluster randomization to assign 17 to the experimental treatment and 17 to usual care. Enrollment began in July, 2009 and ended in July 2011 with 404 subjects. The results of the trial will be published separately. The goal of the paper is to present both the overall development of the intervention and the design of the clinical trial to evaluate its effectiveness. We believe that we have succeeded in both designing a multimodal treatment intervention that can be delivered in real world clinical settings and implementing a controlled clinical trial which can provide the necessary outcome data to determine its impact on the trajectory of early phase schizophrenia.