Multifamily psychoeducation for first-episode psychosis: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Family psychoeducation is considered part of optimal treatment for first-episode psychosis, but concerns about the cost of this intervention have limited its availability. Although evidence suggests that family psychoeducation is cost-effective, many cost-effectiveness analyses have suffered from limitations that reduce their utility in guiding decisions to incorporate this intervention within existing clinical services. These include not presenting results in present-day dollars and not examining whether the intervention would remain cost-effective in situations where the clinical benefits achieved were smaller than those reported in past studies. Thus the goal of this study was to investigate the cost of providing a specific psychoeducation program-multifamily group psy

SUBMITTER: Breitborde NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5594750 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature