A Pilot Feasibility Study of an Extension of the Acquaintanceship Recruitment Procedure in Recent-Onset Psychosis

The acquaintanceship recruitment procedure is an appealing yet infrequently used method to recruit controls, allowing a very close match between patients and controls. We used an extension of the acquaintanceship procedure to investigate the feasibility of this method to recruit controls in a neuropsychological study of recent-onset psychotic patients. Twenty-five recent-onset psychotic patients attending a multidisciplinary program devoted to …