Neighborhood crime, socioeconomic status, and suspiciousness in adolescents and young adults at Clinical High Risk (CHR) for psychosis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Contextual factors representing chronic stressors, such as neighborhood crime characteristics, have been repeatedly linked to compromised mental and physical health, and may contribute to the pathologizing of normative/non-clinical experiences. However, the impact of such structural factors has seldom been incorporated in Clinical High Risk (CHR) for psychosis research. Understanding how context can influence the presence or severity of symptoms such as suspiciousness/paranoia may have important relevance for promoting valid and reliable assessment, as well as for understanding ways in which environment may be related to illness development and expression.

Methods

A total of 126 adolescents and young adults (n_CHR = 63, n_control = 63) underw

SUBMITTER: Vargas T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7036021 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature