What You See Can Shape Psychosis Research
Families see changes in behavior, decision-making, and daily life long before anyone else does. Too often, what we see is dismissed.
What caregivers see could become useful data.
A few minutes of your time could contribute to research with far-reaching impact. Your experience can help build it.
Power of Patients® and the Sandy Pruett Project™ have launched research to explore whether what families and people with lived experience observe can help first responders recognize psychosis during an encounter.
First responders already have training and experience in responding to people in crisis. This research explores whether data drawn from families and people with lived experience could provide an additional layer of information, helping responders recognize psychosis and better understand what they are seeing in the moment, with appropriate care at the center.
When psychosis is recognized earlier, fewer people may be dismissed at the moment they need help. Lives could be saved.
Why This Matters
When first responders arrive, they’re walking into a moment families have sometimes watched build for weeks or months. They see a single encounter. We’ve seen the whole picture.
From what you see, to a tool empowering first responders
Power of Patients® has demonstrated the value of incorporating patient and caregiver perspectives into tools designed to better understand the impact of brain injury. That work helped inform our thinking as we begin exploring a new approach to assessing psychosis, one designed specifically around the information first responders need when encountering someone experiencing psychosis.
Your Observations Turned Into Evidence
What you see matters.
Information is being collected and structured so researchers can find meaningful patterns to better understand psychosis.
Those patterns could help us better understand psychosis and give first responders more information when they encounter someone experiencing it.
Every response adds to the evidence.
