Journal
ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA
Volume 119, Issue 3, Pages 226-235Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01301.x
Keywords
Psychosis; social isolation; ethnic groups
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- UK Medical Research Council
- Stanley Medical Research Institute
- Department of Health via the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
- Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health award
- Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM)
- Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London
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We sought to investigate the prevalence and social correlates of psychotic-like experiences in a general population sample of Black and White British subjects. Data were collected from randomly selected community control subjects, recruited as part of the SOP study, a three-centre population based study of first-episode psychosis. The proportion of subjects reporting one or more psychotic-like experience was 19% (n = 72/372). These were more common in Black Caribbean (OR 2.08) and Black African subjects (OR 4.59), compared with White British. In addition, a number of indicators of childhood and adult disadvantage were associated with psychotic-like experiences. When these variables were simultaneously entered into a regression model, Black African ethnicity, concentrated adult disadvantage, and separation from parents retained a significant effect. The higher prevalence of psychotic-like experiences in the Black Caribbean, but not Black African, group was explained by high levels of social disadvantage over the life course.
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