The baseline measurement of awareness programme, which is still ongoing, illustrates the delay in receiving adequate treatment in first-episode psychosis. Within a sub-sample of 82 first-episode patients, the average duration of untreated illness was almost 5.9 years (median, 5.2 years) and the duration of untreated psychosis was 81 weeks (median, 29 weeks) (Köhn et al. 2004). No significant differences between the intervention and control areas were revealed by the baseline measurement. On average, people with first-episode schizophrenia contacted professionals or semi-professionals 3.1 times before a diagnosis of psychosis was made and adequate treatment prescribed. Only 31% of patients sought help in the prodromal phase of the illness.