Effect of Experience Sharing and Mutual Assistance on Insight and Recovery During the First Psychotic Episode

Effect of Experience Sharing and Mutual Assistance on Insight and Recovery During the First Psychotic Episode

Controlled, prospective, qualitative and quantitative trial. The goal of this trial is to evaluate the mutual assistance early intervention device efficacy and its impact on insight and personal recovery of participants living with a first psychotic episode. This intervention lasts 5 days with 1 session per day of 1 hour 30 minutes. Three evaluations, before the intervention, after intervention and 1 month after the hospitalization's end.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Man or woman between 18 and 40 years old
• First psychotic episode under the guidance of a doctor
• Brief psycotic trouble (SM-V)
• Presenting a first psychiatry hospitalization (all modalities hospitalizations combined)
• Fluent in French language (read and written)
• Patient affiliated to a social protection system or beneficiary of Medical Aid of State
• Patient having signed informed consent for his participation in the protocol

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients whose clinical condition does not allow them to participate in research
• Patients placed in isolation rooms during the intervention