Study Finds Higher Death Rate among Youth after Psychosis

April 7, 2017

(UPI) – Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, have found young people have a higher death rate after experiencing a first episode of psychosis. The study analyzed data from roughly 5,000 people age 16-30 with commercial health insurance who had received a first psychosis diagnosis and tracked them for 12 months following diagnosis. Researchers found that people who were diagnosed with their first episode of psychosis had a mortality rate 24 times greater than the general population in the 12 months since diagnosis.