Threat, hostility and violence in childhood and later psychotic disorder: population-based case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A growing body of research suggests that childhood adversities are associated with later psychosis, broadly defined. However, there remain several gaps and unanswered questions. Most studies are of low-level psychotic experiences and findings cannot necessarily be extrapolated to psychotic disorders. Further, few studies have examined the effects of more fine-grained dimensions of adversity such as type, timing and severity.

Aims

Using detailed data from the Childhood Adversity and Psychosis (CAPsy) study, we sought to address these gaps and examine in detail associations between a range of childhood adversities and psychotic disorder.

Method

CAPsy is population-based first-episode psychosis case-control study in the UK. In a sample of 374 cases and 301 con

SUBMITTER: Morgan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7525109 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature