The media showed interest yesterday in the story of a team at the Bondi Early Psychosis Programme, who have developed a model of metabolic screening and a treatment algorithm to provide clinicians with recommendations for targeted interventions for young people experiencing their first episode of psychosis. Their concern was with weight gain and metabolic problems associated with antipsychotic agents, and how clinicians can help prevent these problems before they happen.
The Sydney Morning Herald and ABC Radio's AM program, both ran stories about Julio De La Torre, who gained 20 kg in six months of treatment, and interviewed Jackie Curtis, the clinical leader at the Bondi centre.
You can read the abstract of the article published in Early Intervention in Psychiatry, which outlines the group's early intervention strategy, here. To obtain the full text of the article, please contact your health library.
Jackie Curtis, Hannah D. Newall, Katherine Samaras. "The heart of the matter: cardiometabolic care in youth with psychosis". Early Intervention in Psychiatry. Article first published online: 6 JAN 2012. DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2011.00315.x
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