Migration history and risk of psychosis: results from the multinational EU-GEI study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychosis rates are higher among some migrant groups. We hypothesized that psychosis in migrants is associated with cumulative social disadvantage during different phases of migration.

Methods

We used data from the EUropean Network of National Schizophrenia Networks studying Gene-Environment Interactions (EU-GEI) case-control study. We defined a set of three indicators of social disadvantage for each phase: pre-migration, migration and post-migration. We examined whether social disadvantage in the pre- and post-migration phases, migration adversities, and mismatch between achievements and expectations differed between first-generation migrants with first-episode psychosis and healthy first-generation migrants, and tested whether this accounted for differences in o

SUBMITTER: Tarricone I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9693676 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature