Oberndorfer, R Alexandrowicz, R W Unger, A Koch, M Markiewicz, I Gosek, P Heitzman, J Iozzino, L Ferrari, C Salize, H-J
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
The purpose was to compare the frequency of needs of patients with schizophrenia in forensic services across five European countries as assessed by both the patients and their care staff. Patients with schizophrenia and a history of significant interpersonal violence were recruited from forensic psychiatric services in Austria, Germany, Italy, Pola...
Nagendra, Arundati Weiss, David M Merritt, Carrington Cather, Corinne Sosoo, Effua E Mueser, Kim T Penn, David L
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
In the US, Black people diagnosed with schizophrenia experience worse psychosocial and clinical outcomes than their White counterparts. While racism-related factors contribute to these disparities, an additional understudied explanation may be that psychosocial treatments for psychotic disorders are less effective for Black than White individuals. ...
Majuri, Tuomas Alakokkare, Anni-Emilia Haapea, Marianne Nordström, Tanja Miettunen, Jouko Jääskeläinen, Erika Ala-Mursula, Leena
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Psychoses are associated with poor labour market attachment, but few studies have compared schizophrenia (SZ) and other psychoses (OP). Moreover, studies on long-term employment trajectories over individuals' working life courses are lacking. We compared 30 year employment trajectory patterns in a general population sample among individuals with SZ...
Adewuya, Abiodun O Oladipo, Olabisi E Imarah, Tomilola Asmal, Laila Emsley, Robin
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
The study assessed the 3-year progression of clinically significant psychotic-like experience (CS-PLE) symptoms in an adult general population in terms of stability or remission of symptoms and transition to psychosis. Participants (n = 1292) aged 18-65 years with CS-PLE were assessed at baseline for sociodemographic details, family history of ment...
MacBeth, Angus McSkimming, Paula Bhattacharya, Sohinee Park, John Gumley, Andrew St Clair, David Barry, Sarah J E
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Women diagnosed with non-affective psychosis have a lower general fertility rate (GFR) and age-specific fertility rate (ASFR) than women in the general population. Contemporary data on GFR in this group remain limited, despite substantive changes in prescribing and management. We calculated contemporary estimates of the GFR and ASFR for women diagn...
Miozzo, Ruben Eaton, William Bienvenu, O Joseph Samuels, Jack Nestadt, Gerald
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Psychiatric comorbidity is defined as the joint occurrence of two or more mental or substance use disorders. Widespread psychiatric comorbidity has been reported in treatment and population-based studies. The aim of this study was to measure the extent and impact of psychiatric comorbidity in a cohort of the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area s...
Paquin, Vincent Pries, Lotta-Katrin Ten Have, Margreet Bak, Maarten Gunther, Nicole de Graaf, Ron van Dorsselaer, Saskia Lin, Bochao D van Eijk, Kristel R Kenis, Gunter
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The health correlates of polygenic risk (PRS-SCZ) and exposome (ES-SCZ) scores for schizophrenia may vary depending on age and sex. We aimed to examine age- and sex-specific associations of PRS-SCZ and ES-SCZ with self-reported health in the general population. Participants were from the population-based Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Inciden...
Weziak-Bialowolska, Dorota Lee, Matthew T Bialowolski, Piotr Chen, Ying VanderWeele, Tyler J McNeely, Eileen
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Excellent character, reflected in adherence to high standards of moral behavior, has been argued to contribute to well-being. The study goes beyond this claim and provides insights into the role of strengths of moral character (SMC) for physical and mental health. This study used longitudinal observational data merged with medical insurance claims ...
Kaoser, Ridhwana Jones, Wayne Dove, Naomi Tallon, Corinne Small, Will Vigo, Daniel Samji, Hasina
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
A needs-based model of health systems planning uses a systematic estimate of service needs for a given population. Our objective was to derive annual prevalence estimates of specific mental disorders in the adult population of British Columbia, Canada and use a novel triangulation approach encompassing multiple data sources and stratifying these es...
Fovet, Thomas Pignon, Baptiste Wathelet, Marielle Benradia, Imane Roelandt, Jean-Luc Jardri, Renaud Thomas, Pierre D'Hondt, Fabien Amad, Ali
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We sought to measure the prevalence of psychotic symptoms (PSs) and psychotic disorders (PDs) in a sample of men entering jail and to compare these prevalences with those observed in the general population. We also aimed to explore the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with PSs and PDs. The Mental Health in the Prison Population (MHP...
