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Trauma and psychotic experiences: transnational data from the World Mental Health Survey

John Mcgrath Sukanta Saha 1 Carmen Lim Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola Jordi Alonso 2 Laura Andrade Evelyn Bromet Ronny Bruffaerts José Caldas de Almeida Graça Cardoso Giovanni de Girolamo John Fayyad Silvia Florescu Oye Gureje Josep Haro Norito Kawakami Karestan Koenen Viviane Kovess-Masféty 3, 4 Sing Lee Jean-Pierre Lépine Katie Mclaughlin Maria Medina-Mora Fernando Navarro-Mateu Akin Ojagbemi Jose Posada-Villa Nancy Sampson Kate Scott 5 Hisateru Tachimori Margreet ten Have Kenneth Kendler 6 Ronald Kessler
1 Symantec
2 CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP)
3 EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP]
4 METIS - Département Méthodes quantitatives en santé publique
5 University of Otago [Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande]
6 VCU - Virginia Commonwealth University
Abstract : Background: Traumatic events are associated with increased risk of psychotic experiences, but it is unclear whether this association is explained by mental disorders prior to psychotic experience onset.AimsTo investigate the associations between traumatic events and subsequent psychotic experience onset after adjusting for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental disorders. Method: We assessed 29 traumatic event types and psychotic experiences from the World Mental Health surveys and examined the associations of traumatic events with subsequent psychotic experience onset with and without adjustments for mental disorders. Results: Respondents with any traumatic events had three times the odds of other respondents of subsequently developing psychotic experiences (OR = 3.1, 95% CI 2.7-3.7), with variability in strength of association across traumatic event types. These associations persisted after adjustment for mental disorders. Conclusions: Exposure to traumatic events predicts subsequent onset of psychotic experiences even after adjusting for comorbid mental disorders.
Keywords : World Mental Health Survey Traumatic events Psychotic experiences Mental Health
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John Mcgrath, Sukanta Saha, Carmen Lim, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, et al.. Trauma and psychotic experiences: transnational data from the World Mental Health Survey. British Journal of Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2017, 211 (6), pp.373-380. ⟨10.1192/bjp.bp.117.205955⟩. ⟨hal-02466044⟩

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