Clinical Practice Guidelines for Early Psychosis Intervention: An AGREE II Appraisal

26 clinical practice guidelines and quality standards for early intervention in psychosis, appraised using the AGREE II methodology. The dataset, authored by Pasquale Scognamiglio and last updated in June 2026, contains a systematic review identifying 32 core recommendations for clinical high-risk and first-episode psychosis care. It is a 10.0 KB DOCX file available under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking local service components against internationally endorsed recommendations based on the 32 identified core components.
• Informing the development of new clinical guidelines based on the AGREE II appraisal of methodological quality across 26 documents.
• Identifying consensus treatment pathways for first-episode psychosis based on components like specialized multidisciplinary teams and supported employment.
• Analyzing recommendations for antipsychotic use in clinical high-risk populations based on the reviewed guideline cautions.

Strengths

• Systematic methodology following PRISMA 2020 guidance, with a search updated to March 2025.
• Appraises 26 distinct documents (24 CPGs and 2 QSs) using the formal AGREE II tool.
• Identifies 32 specific core recommendations derived from the guideline synthesis.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 10.0 KB document; the underlying data tables or extracted recommendations are not provided as a structured data file.
• Row and column counts are unknown, limiting assessment of data scale and structure.
• Documentation of specific data fields or a codebook is absent from the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Systematic review and AGREE II-based appraisal of guidelines sourced from MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and grey literature.

Time Range

Guidelines published from 2005 onward were included in the review.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 06:02:25.