50: Online Psychosis Screening: Characterizing an Underexamined Population to Improve Access and Equity

Mark Savill, Ph.D., joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss using online psychosis screening data to see what can be learned about the population taking the assessment, what can be done to close the gap between screening and treatment, and to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis.  Dr. Savill is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of California, Davis. What’s your background? [01:17] Prodromal Questionnaire Brief (PQ-B) [03:03] Duration of Untreated Psychosis (DUP) [03:40] What does the beginning of treatment mean? [05:22] How can the internet help to decrease the time from symptoms to treatment? [07:20] What are people looking for and what are they finding? [10:05] Mental Health America screening [11:00] Where does the PQ-B fit? What did you investigate? [14:33] Getting people into treatment – from A to B, or from A to L? [18:53] What did you learn? [19:50] The numbers [25:02] Further research [23:24] Subscribe to the podcast here. Check out Editor's Choice, a set of curated collections from the rich resource of articles published in the journal. Sign up to receive notification of new Editor's Choice collections. Browse other articles on our website. Be sure to let your colleagues know about the podcast, and please rate and review it wherever you listen to it. Listen to other podcasts produced by the American Psychiatric Association. Follow the journal on Twitter. E-mail us at [email protected]