The association between migrant status and transition in an ultra-high risk for psychosis population

B O’Donoghue; H Geros; H Sizer; J Addington; GP Amminger; CE Beaden; KS Cadenhead; TD Cannon; BA Cornblatt; GE Berger; EYH Chen; L de Haan; JA Hartmann; IB Hickie; HK Ising; S Lavoie; A Lin; C Markulev; DH Mathalon; TH McGlashan; NG Mifsud; N Mossaheb; DH Nieman; M Nordentoft; DO Perkins; A Riecher-Rössler; MR Schäfer; M Schlögelhofer; LJ Seidman; S Smesny; A Thompson; MT Tsuang; M van der Gaag; S Verma; EF Walker; SJ Wood; SW Woods; HP Yuen; AR Yung; PD McGorry; B Nelson

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The association between migrant status and transition in an ultra-high risk for psychosis population

B O’Donoghue, H Geros, H Sizer, J Addington, GP Amminger, CE Beaden, KS Cadenhead, TD Cannon, BA Cornblatt, GE Berger, EYH Chen, L de Haan, JA Hartmann, IB Hickie, HK Ising, S Lavoie, A Lin, C Markulev, DH Mathalon, TH McGlashan Show all

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | SPRINGER HEIDELBERG | Published : 2021

DOI: 10.1007/s00127-020-02012-6

Abstract

Purpose: Migrant status is one of the most replicated and robust risk factors for developing a psychotic disorder. This study aimed to determine whether migrant status in people identified as Ultra-High Risk for Psychosis (UHR) was associated with risk of transitioning to a full-threshold psychotic disorder. Methods: Hazard ratios for the risk of transition were calculated from five large UHR cohorts (n = 2166) and were used to conduct a meta-analysis using the generic inverse-variance method using a random-effects model. Results: 2166 UHR young people, with a mean age of 19.1 years (SD ± 4.5) were included, of whom 221 (10.7%) were first-generation migrants. A total of 357 young people tran..

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