Patterns of symptoms before a diagnosis of first episode psychosis: a latent class analysis of UK primary care electronic health records.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:The nature of symptoms in the prodromal period of first episode psychosis (FEP) remains unclear. The objective was to determine the patterns of symptoms recorded in primary care in the 5 years before FEP diagnosis. METHODS:The study was set within 568 practices contributing to a UK primary care health record database (Clinical Practice Research Datalink). Patients aged 16-45 years with a first coded record of FEP, and no antipsychotic prescription more than 1 year prior to FEP diagnosis (n = 3045) was age, gender, and practice matched to controls without FEP (n = 12,180). Fifty-five symptoms recorded in primary care in the previous 5 years, categorised into 8 groups (mood-related, 'neurotic', behavioural change, volition change, cognitive change, perceptual problem, substance misuse, physical symptoms), were compared between cases and controls. Common patterns of symptoms prior to FEP diagnosis were identified using latent class analysis. RESULTS:Median age at diagnosis was 30 years, 63% were male. Non-affective psychosis (67%) was the most common diagnosis. Mood-related, 'neurotic', and physical symptoms were frequently recorded (> 30% of patients) before diagnosis, and behavioural change, volition change, and substance misuse were also common (> 10%). Prevalence of all symptom groups was higher in FEP patients than in controls (adjusted odds ratios 1.33-112). Median time from the first recorded symptom to FEP diagnosis was 2-2.5 years except for perceptual problem (70 days). The optimal latent class model applied to FEP patients determined three distinct patient clusters: 'no or minimal symptom cluster' (49%) had no or few symptoms recorded; 'affective symptom cluster' (40%) mainly had mood-related and 'neurotic' symptoms; and 'multiple symptom cluster' (11%) consulted for three or more symptom groups before diagnosis. The multiple symptom cluster was more likely to have drug-induced psychosis, female, obese, and have a higher morbidity burden. Affective and multiple symptom clusters showed a good discriminative ability (C-statistic 0.766; sensitivity 51.2% and specificity 86.7%) for FEP, and many patients in these clusters had consulted for their symptoms several years before FEP diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS:Distinctive patterns of prodromal symptoms may help alert general practitioners to those developing psychosis, facilitating earlier identification and referral to specialist care, thereby avoiding potentially detrimental treatment delay.

journal_name

BMC Med

journal_title

BMC medicine

authors

Chen Y,Farooq S,Edwards J,Chew-Graham CA,Shiers D,Frisher M,Hayward R,Sumathipala A,Jordan KP

doi

10.1186/s12916-019-1462-y

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-12-04 00:00:00

pages

227

issue

1

issn

1741-7015

pii

10.1186/s12916-019-1462-y

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17

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