Which pathways to psychiatric care lead to earlier treatment and a shorter duration of first-episode psychosis?

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Table 2 DUP (months) and association with demographic and clinical characteristics

		N	Median (inter-quartile range)	Kruskal Wallis Χ²	df	P
Total sample		480	3 (1 – 9.5)
Age	25 or less	166	3 (1 to 8)
	>25 - 32	159	3 (1 to 10)	0.445	2	0.80
	>32	155	3 (1 to 10)
Gender	Male	294	4 (1 to 10)	3.84	1	0.05
	Female	186	3 (1 to 8)
Single	Yes	202	3 (1 to 9)	0.94	1	0.36
	No	278	3 (1 to 10)
Qualifications	None	255	4 (1 to 10)
	Yes	214	3 (1 to 8)	1.69	1	0.19
Social class	I, II, III	113	4 (1 to 9)
	IV, V	226	4 (1 to 12)	6.99	2	0.03
	Unclassified, not working	141	3 (1 to 6)
UK born	No	239	3 (1 to 9)	2.79	1	0.10
	Yes	241	4 (2 to 10)
Ethnicity	White	177	4 (2 to 10)	5.08	3	<0.001
	Black	160	3 (1 to 5)
	Indian sub-continent	114	4 (2 to 12)
	Other	29	4 (2 to 12)
Diagnosis	Schizophrenia	165	6 (2 to 12)	98.87	7	<0.001
	Delusional disorder	29	6 (4 to 18)
	Brief psychotic disorder	46	1 (1 to 1)
	Schizoaffective disorder	91	3 (1 to 9)
	Non-affective psychosis NOS	29	2 (1 to 6)
	Psychotic depression	67	5 (2 to 9)
	Psychotic mania	49	1 (1 to 3)
	Affective psychosis - NOS	3	1.5 (1 to 3)
Detained within a	No	253	4 (1 to 12)	5.86	1	0.02
week of contact	Yes	221	3 (1 to 6)
1st contact on	GP	169	4 (2 to 10)	13.02	7	0.07
care pathway	NRH	12	3 (1 to 9.5)
	CHSC	36	5.5 (2 to 12)
	CJS	122	3 (1 to 10)
	HoMed	7	1 (1 to 3)
	PS	15	3 (1 to 6)
	A&E	102	2 (1 to 6)
	EC	17	1 (1 to 6)

Spearman correlation coefficient between the number of close persons and DUP = −0.28, P<0.001.

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