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S015-5

10-year Outcome of An Early Intervention Program for Psychosis Compared
With Standardar Care Service in Hong Kong

Sherry Kit-Wah Chan

University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Background/Objective: Despite convincing evidence on the short-term benefits of early
intervention (EI) service for psychosis, long-term outcome studies are limited with inconsistent
results. Current study has examined the 10-year outcomes of patients with first-episode psycho

Method: Consecutive patients who received EI service in the whole territory between 1st July 2001
and 30th June 2002, and with diagnosis of Schizophrenia-spectrum diagnosis, were identified and
matched with patients who received SC first presented to the public p

Result: 70.3% (N=104) of SC and 74.3% (N=110) of EI patients were successfully interviewed.
Results suggested that EI patients had fewer number (OR=1.56, X2=15.64, p<0.0001) and shorter
duration of hospitalization (OR=1.29, X2=4.06, p=0.04), longer employment per

Conclusion: The benefits of EI service on number of hospitalization and employment are sustained
for up to 10 years after termination of the service, but the differences narrowed down. This suggested
the need of evaluating the optimal duration of EI service.