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The aim of the study was to analyze changes in functional adjustment from childhood to 2 years after the first episode of psychosis (FEP) in patients with early-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and affective psychoses (AFP) and a good or intermediate level of premorbid adjustment. We followed 106 adolescents (aged 12–17 years) with FEP for 2 years after recruitment. Premorbid adjustment in childhood was assessed in 98 patients with the childhood subscale of the Cannon-Spoor Premorbid Adjustment Scale (c-PAS). Global functioning was assessed 2 years after the FEP with the Children’s Global Assessment Scale (c-GAS) or the Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF), as appropriate. Functional deterioration was defined as a downward shift in the level of functional adjustment from childhood to 2 years after the FEP. In patients with good or intermediate premorbid adjustment, functional deterioration was observed in 28.2 % (26.5 % of the AFP group, 29.4 % of the SSD group). Longer duration of untreated psychosis (Beta = 0.01; P = 0.01) and higher symptom severity at the FEP, as measured with the Clinical Global Impression Scale (Beta = 1.12; P = 0.02), significantly predicted the presence of functional deterioration, accounting for 21.4 % of the variance. Irrespective of diagnosis (SSD or AFP), almost one-third of adolescents with FEP and good or intermediate premorbid adjustment showed functional deterioration from the premorbid period to 2 years after the FEP.
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Our work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (FIS PS09/01442 and PI12/1303), CIBERSAM, Madrid Regional Government (S2010/BMD-2422 AGES), European Union Structural Funds and European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreements FP7-HEALTH-2009-2.2.1-2-241909 (Project EU-GEI), FP7-HEALTH-2009-2.2.1-3-242114 (Project OPTiMISE), FP7- HEALTH-2013-2.2.1-2-603196 (Project PSYSCAN) and FP7- HEALTH-2013-2.2.1-2-602478 (Project METSY); Fundación Alicia Koplowitz (FAK2012, FAK2013), Fundación Mutua Madrileña (FMM2009), and ERA-NET NEURON (Network of European Funding for Neuroscience Research) (PIM2010ERN-00642).
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Dr. Fraguas has been a consultant and/or advisor to or has received honoraria from Astra-Zeneca, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Janssen, Lundbeck, Otsuka, and Pfizer. Dr. Díaz-Caneja has held a Río Hortega grant, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and a grant from Fundación Alicia Koplowitz. Dr. Pina-Camacho holds a grant from the Fundación Alicia Koplowitz and has previously held a Río Hortega grant, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness. Dr. Baeza has received honoraria from Otsuka. Dr. Ana González-Pinto has received grants and served as consultant, advisor, or CME speaker for the following entities: Almirall, Astra-Zeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cephalon, Eli Lilly, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Janssen-Cilag, Jazz, Johnson & Johnson, Lundbeck, Merck, Otsuka, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Servier, Schering-Plough, Solvay, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CIBERSAM), the Ministry of Science (Carlos III Institute), the Basque Government, the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and Wyeth. Dr. Arango has been a consultant to or has received honoraria or grants from Abbot, AMGEN, Astra-Zeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Caja Navarra, CIBERSAM, Fundación Alicia Koplowitz, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Janssen-Cilag, Lundbeck, Merck, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Ministerio de Sanidad, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Mutua Madrileña, Otsuka, Pfizer, Roche, Servier, Shire, Takeda, and Schering-Plough. The rest of the authors report no conflicts of interest related to this work. There are no other published data or manuscripts based on these data pending a decision.
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Del Rey-Mejías, Á., Fraguas, D., Díaz-Caneja, C.M. et al. Functional deterioration from the premorbid period to 2 years after the first episode of psychosis in early-onset psychosis. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 24, 1447–1459 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-015-0693-5
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