Environmental Risk Factors and Psychotic-like Experiences in Children Aged 9-10.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Research implicates environmental risk factors, including correlates of urbanicity, deprivation, and environmental toxins, in psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). The current study examined associations between several types of environmental risk factors and PLEs in school-age children, whether these associations were specific to PLEs or generalized to other psychopathology, and examined possible neural mechanisms for significant associations.

Method

The current study used cross-sectional data from 10,328 children 9-10 years old from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Hierarchical linear models examined associations between PLEs and geocoded environmental risk factors and whether associations generalized to internalizing/externalizing symptoms.

SUBMITTER: Karcher NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7895444 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature