STEP-ED: Reducing Duration of Untreated Psychosis and Its Impact in the U.S.

This intervention consists of educational campaigns directed at patients \& families (who have yet to seek care) and professionals in educational and clinical settings to hasten referral of individuals with new onset psychosis to an established, best-practice first-episode service (i.e. STEP). Interleaved with this educational campaign will be procedures to make the STEP clinic more rapidly responsive to referrals to further shorten the duration of untreated psychosis

This intervention will provide equivalent best practice care without the benefit of an early detection campaign