Razi Journal of Medical Sciences

Background: Psychotic disorders have special importance within different psychiatry disorders, for both the individual and familial problems as well as economical and social consequences. The most widespread of them is Schizophrenia and Affective Psychotic Disorders, which often start in early ages and usually need expensive treatments while lacking sufficient prognosis. The aim of this study is determining the effects of risk factors on the severity of symptoms of illness in the first-episode psychosis patients who were admitted to Roozbeh Hospital in a 2-year follow up study.

Methods: In this longitudinal study, first-episode psychosis patient’s data who were admitted to Roozbeh Hospital between 2006– 2008, were analyzed. The effect of variables such as type of treatment, age, gender, marital status, educational status, profession, family history of illness and the main diagnosis, on the severity of symptoms of illness was studied using transitional model in “R” software V2.15.0.

Results: Type of treatment, profession and the main diagnosis has significant effect on patient’s response.

Conclusions: Underscoring the meaningful variables on patient’s response in care duration could be useful for better recognition of the treatment status of these patients’ and could help in presenting more suitable interventional programs.