Transcultural Approach in Early Psychosis Interventions

Abstract

Introduction

The Early Psychosis Intervention Programme (EPIP) in South Granada serves a population with a first psychotic episode. In 2014, 16 patients entered the program, 6 of whom were North Africans.

Aims

It is justified by clinical and health care needs to adapt and contextualize care plans and interventions to the specific necessities of this population: considering its suffering meaning and interpretation.

Methods

A descriptive study of the data obtained in this population with the Scale of Positive and Negative Syndrome of Schizophrenia (PANSS) arises.

Results

In the positive scale, the 6 subjects score in the low range (between 6–25th percentile).

On the negative 2 score in the low range and 4 in the middle (between 26–74th percentile).

In the compound scale in 3 cases, the predominance of negative symptoms is in the low range scale, the rest is in the middle range.

Finally, in general psychopathology scale, 2 subjects scored in the low range, the same who scored in the same range in the negative scale. Two subjects scored in the midrange and 2 in the high.

Conclusions

According to data, positive symptoms do not stand out among this group of patients. As for negative symptoms, if the range is low, so is the measure of general psychopathology. If the range is average, general psychopathology is medium-high. Also, when the range is average in negative symptoms, means the compound profile reflects predominance of negative syndrome. This reveals the importance of emphasizing a negative symptoms approach and its relationship with general psychopathology.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.