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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2011 Sep;62(9):1007–1012. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.62.9.1007

Table 1.

Summary of findings from studies of first-episode psychosis treatment with or without specialized substance abuse treatment

Study Substance use outcome Mental health outcome Functional outcome
Without specialized substance abuse treatment
 Archie et al., 2007 (11) Improvementa No change No change
 Baeza et al., 2009 (43) Mixed findings Improvement Not assessed
 Grech et al., 2005 (5) Improvement Mixed findings Not assessed
 Harrison et al., 2008 (44) Improvement Mixed findings No change
 Kovasznay et al., 1997 (7) Observational only No change Observational only
 Lambert et al., 2005 (24) and Hinton et al., 2007 (45) Improvement Improvement Not assessed
 Turkington et al., 2009 (46) Improvement Observational only Observational only
 Verdoux et al., 2001 (47) Improvement Not assessed Not assessed
With specialized substance abuse treatment
 Addington et al., 2001 (48) Improvement No change Mixed findings
 Carr et al., 2009 (49) Improvement Not assessed Not assessed
 Edwards et al., 2006 (50) No change No change No change
 Gleeson et al., 2009 (51) No change Improvement No change
 Kavanagh et al., 2004 (52) No change Not assessed Not assessed
a

“Improvement” indicates the intervention group demonstrated a statistically significant increase in positive outcomes or a decrease in negative outcomes compared with the comparison or control group. “Mixed findings” indicates improvement on some measures of the outcome and no difference or negative findings on other measures of the outcome. [For additional information, see online appendix at ps.psychiatryonline.org.]