Merle Schlief, Nathalie Rich, Luke Sheridan Rains, Helen Baldwin, Antonio Rojas-Garcia, Patrick Nyikavaranda, Karen Persaud, Ceri Dare, Paul French, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, Mike Crawford, Jo Smith, James B Kirkbride, Sonia Johnson
There is some evidence of differences in psychosis care provision by ethnicity. We investigated variations in the receipt of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) and family intervention across ethnic groups in Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams throughout England, where national policy mandates offering these interventions to all. We included data on 29,610 service users from the National Clinical Audit of Psychosis (NCAP), collected between 2018 and 2021. We conducted mixed effects logistic regression analyses to examine odds ratios of receiving an intervention (CBTp, family intervention, either intervention) across 17 ethnic groups while accounting for the effect of years and variance between teams and adjusting for individual- (age, gender, occupational status) and team-level covariates (care-coordinator caseload, inequalities strategies)...
October 7, 2023: Psychiatry Research