Impact of "psychosis risk" identification: Examining predictors of how youth view themselves.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying young people as at clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis affords opportunities for intervention to possibly prevent psychosis onset. Yet such CHR identification could plausibly increase stigma. We do not know whether these youth already perceive themselves to be at psychosis-risk (PR) or how their being told they are at PR might impact how they think about themselves.

Methods

148 CHR youth were asked about labels they had been given by others (labeling by others) or with which they personally identified (self-labeling). They were then asked which had the greatest impact on how they thought about themselves. We evaluated whether being told vs. thinking they were at PR had stronger effects.

Findings

The majority identified nonpsychotic disorders

SUBMITTER: Yang LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7079577 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature