Psychotic Experiences in the General Population: A Cross-National Analysis Based on 31,261 Respondents From 18 Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Community-based surveys find that many otherwise healthy individuals report histories of hallucinations and delusions. To date, most studies have focused on the overall lifetime prevalence of any of these psychotic experiences (PEs), which might mask important features related to the types and frequencies of PEs.

Objective

To explore detailed epidemiologic information about PEs in a large multinational sample.

Design, setting, and participants

We obtained data from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys, a coordinated set of community epidemiologic surveys of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in representative household samples from 18 countries throughout the world, from 2001 through 2009. Respondents included 31,261 adul

SUBMITTER: McGrath JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5120396 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature