Prevalence and impact of cannabis use disorders in adolescents with early onset first episode psychosis.

  • Benno Graf Schimmelmann
  • P Conus
  • S Cotton
  • S Kupferschmid
  • P D McGorry
  • Martin Lambert

Abstract

Previous studies on the impact of cannabis use disorders (CU) on outcome in psychosis were predominantly based on non representative samples, often have not controlled for confounders and rarely focused on adolescent patients. Thus, the aims of the present study were to assess: (i) prevalence of CU; (ii) baseline and pretreatment differences between CU and those without CU (NCU); (iii) the impact of baseline and course of CU on 18-month outcomes in a representative cohort of adolescents with early onset first episode psychosis (EOP).

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number6
ISSN0924-9338
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 21616646