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- Title
A NEET distinction: youths not in employment, education or training follow different pathways to illness and care in psychosis.
- Authors
Iyer, Srividya; Mustafa, Sally; Gariépy, Geneviève; Shah, Jai; Joober, Ridha; Lepage, Martin; Malla, Ashok
- Abstract
<bold>Purpose: </bold>The early phases of psychosis, including the prodrome, often feature educational/occupational difficulties and various symptoms and signs, that can render or keep youths "Not in Employment, Education or Training" (NEET). Conversely, NEET status itself may increase risk for illness progression and impaired functioning, and impede access to appropriate services for psychosis. As these issues have not been investigated, we aimed to examine differences in the illness and care pathways and characteristics of youths with psychosis who are NEET and non-NEET.<bold>Methods: </bold>Youths entering a catchment-based Canadian early intervention service for psychosis (N = 416) were assessed as being NEET or non-NEET and compared on symptomatology, premorbid adjustment, prodrome and duration of untreated psychosis (DUP).<bold>Results: </bold>Thirty-nine percent of the sample was NEET. Compared to non-NEET youths, NEET youths had 34% higher negative symptoms scores, longer prodromes (median of 52 weeks vs. 24 weeks), and were more often continuously ill after their first psychiatric change until the onset of psychosis (62% vs. 45%). Both groups had similar premorbid adjustment scores until late adolescence when scores were significantly worse for NEET youths. Accounting for other predictors, NEET youths had 23% longer DUPs on average, despite having made more help-seeking attempts.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Despite being more narrowly defined, NEET status was thrice as prevalent in our sample as in the Canadian population. The NEET group followed a distinct trajectory of persistent symptoms and functional decline before presenting with a psychotic disorder. The systemic delays that NEET youths encountered indicate a need for better-targeted early identification efforts.
- Subjects
CANADA; PSYCHOSES; YOUNG people not in education, employment, or training; EARLY intervention (Education); TREATMENT delay (Medicine); IMPAIRED risks; DISEASE progression; UNEMPLOYMENT &; psychology; HEALTH service areas; MEDICAL protocols; RESEARCH funding; UNEMPLOYMENT; EDUCATIONAL attainment; DISEASE prevalence; EARLY diagnosis; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
- Publication
Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2018, Vol 53, Issue 12, p1401
- ISSN
0933-7954
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00127-018-1565-3