Who gets evidence-based therapy for psychosis following a psychiatric hospital admission? Follow-up data from an inpatient randomised controlled trial

A major barrier to clinicians referring service users with psychosis for psychological therapies is the belief that they will not engage. We investigated therapy receipt after discharge, in a sample of who had already demonstrated willingness engage during an inpatient admission. Only one-third (33%; 16/48) received at least 1 session evidence-based 6-month follow-up discharge. Therapy was more common (i) lower delusional distress (ii) Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) background, (iii) discharged Early Intervention (EI) service.