Objectives: This guideline provides recommendations for the clinical management of
schizophrenia and related disorders for health professionals working in Australia and New Zealand…

Objective: To establish the extent to which use of cannabis, alcohol, and other psychoactive
substances affects the age at onset of psychosis by meta-analysis. Data Sources: Peer-…

Background Violence in acute psychiatric wards affects the safety of other patients and the
effectiveness of treatment. However, there is a wide variation in reported rates of violence in …

BACKGROUND: Violence towards others is a recognised complication of first-episode
psychosis. AIMS: To estimate the rate of violence and the associations with violence in first-…

The observation that almost half of the homicides committed by people with a psychotic
illness occur before initial treatment suggests an increased risk of homicide during the first …

Large M, Smith G, Sharma S, Nielssen O, Singh SP. Systematic review and meta‐analysis
of the clinical factors associated with the suicide of psychiatric in‐patients. Objective: To …

Background: The increased risk of suicide in the period after discharge from a psychiatric
hospital is a well-recognized and serious problem. Objective: The aim of this study was to …

Objective The nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), seven-item Generalized
Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7), and ten-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K-10) are …

Clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy of internet delivered cognitive behaviour therapy
(ICBT) for anxiety and depression. However, relatively little is known about the context, …

BACKGROUND: The duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is defined as the period between
the onset of symptoms of psychosis and the start of antipsychotic treatment. Delay in the …