Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Haukeland University Hospital
With
Helse Vest
Age
16–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
A:The observational cohort
Patients 16 years old or older
Active psychosis as determined by a score of 4 or more on one or more of the items Delusions, Hallucinatory behavior, Grandiosity, Suspiciousness/ persecution, or Unusual thought content in the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).
Or ICD-10 diagnosis corresponding to psychotic disorders or other mental disorders with psychotic features (F10-F19: .5 (psychotic disorder); F20-F29, F30.2, F31.2, F31.5, F32.3, F33.3). From which eligible patients are recruited to the B:The pragmatic, randomized, controlled trial (The Best Intro Study)
Patients 18 years and older
Schizophrenia spectrum and delusional disorder
Symptoms of psychosis as determined by a score of 4 or more on one or more of the items Delusions, Hallucinatory behavior, Grandiosity, Suspiciousness/ persecution, or Unusual thought content in the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).
You may not be if
Inability to understand spoken Norwegian.
Patients with organic psychosis due to limbic encephalitis detected by antibodies in serum obtains at inclusion (such as NMDAR, VGKC and paraneoplastic antibodies performed at the Neuroimmunology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital) Pregnant or breast feeding women.
Aripiprazole: Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients
Amisulpride: Hypersensitivity to the active ingredient or to other ingredients of the medicinal product; concomitant prolactin-dependent tumours e.g. pituitary gland prolactinomas and breast cancer; phaeochromocytoma; lactation, combination with the following medications which could induce torsade de pointes: Class Ia antiarrhythmic agents such as quinidine, disopyramide, procainamide. Class III antiarrhythmic agents such as amiodarone, sotalol. Other medications such as bepridil, cisapride, sultopride, thioridazine, methadone, IV erythromycin, IV vincamine, halofantrine, pentamidine, sparfloxacin. Combinations with levodopa.
Olanzapine: Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients. Patients with known risk of narrow-angle glaucoma.
