Journal article

Treated incidence of psychotic disorders in the multinational EU-GEI study

HE Jongsma, C Gayer-Anderson, A Lasalvia, D Quattrone, A Mulè, A Szöke, JP Selten, C Turner, C Arango, I Tarricone, D Berardi, A Tortelli, PM Llorca, L De Haan, J Bobes, M Bernardo, J Sanjuán, JL Santos, M Arrojo, CM Del-Ben Show all

JAMA Psychiatry | AMER MEDICAL ASSOC | Published : 2018

Abstract

IMPORTANCE Psychotic disorders contribute significantly to the global disease burden, yet the latest international incidence study of psychotic disorders was conducted in the 1980s. OBJECTIVES To estimate the incidence of psychotic disorders using comparable methods across 17 catchment areas in 6 countries and to examine the variance between catchment areas by putative environmental risk factors. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS An international multisite incidence study (the European Network of National Schizophrenia Networks Studying Gene-Environment Interactions) was conducted from May 1, 2010, to April 1, 2015, among 2774 individuals from England (2 catchment areas), France (3 catchment..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The European Network of National Schizophrenia Networks Studying Gene-Environment Interactions (EU-GEI) Project is funded by grant agreement HEALTH-F2-2010-241909 (Project EU-GEI) from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme. The Brazilian study was funded by grant 2012/0417-0 from the Sao Paulo Research Foundation. Dr Kirkbride is funded by the Wellcome Trust and grant 101272/Z/13/Z from the Royal Society. Ms Jongsma and Dr Jones are funded by the National Institute of Health Research Collaboration of Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care East of England.