50: Online Psychosis Screening: Characterizing an Underexamined Population to Improve Access and Equity

Psychiatric Services From Pages to Practice

Mark Savill, Ph.D., joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss using online psychosis screening data to see what can be learned about the population taking the assessment, what can be done to close the gap between screening and treatment, and to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis. Dr. Savill is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of California, Davis.

• What's your background? [01:17]
• Prodromal Questionnaire Brief (PQ-B) [03:03]
• Duration of Untreated Psychosis (DUP) [03:40]
• What does the beginning of treatment mean? [05:22]
• How can the internet help to decrease the time from symptoms to treatment? [07:20]
• What are people looking for and what are they finding? [10:05]
• Mental Health America screening [11:00]
• Where does the PQ-B fit?
• What did you investigate? [14:33]
• Getting people into treatment – from A to B, or from A to L? [18:53]
• What did you learn? [19:50]
• The numbers [25:02]
• Further research [23:24]

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