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- Title
Influence of demographic characteristics on attenuated positive psychotic symptoms in a young, help‐seeking, at‐risk population.
- Authors
Theodoridou, Anastasia; Heekeren, Karsten; Dvorsky, Diane; Rössler, Wulf; Hengartner, Michael P.; Schultze‐Lutter, Frauke; Gerstenberg, Miriam; Walitza, Susanne
- Abstract
Aim: Presentation of attenuated positive psychotic symptoms (APS) was reported to be modestly influenced by age, sex and education in a psychosis‐risk sample. We re‐examined the influence of demographic variables on APS in an independent psychosis‐risk sample. Method: In a clinical high‐risk‐sample (N = 188; 13‐35 years; 60.1% men), bivariate correlations were examined with Spearman correlations. All other associations were computed with generalized linear models. Results: Inter‐correlations between positive symptoms were statistically significant for all but the smallest coefficient (range: r = 0.12‐0.49). Age was negatively related to APS (range: OR = 0.53‐0.78, all P <.01). Male sex was uniquely related to disorganized communication (OR = 1.46) and a high education‐level related negatively to suspiciousness/persecutory ideas (OR = 0.64), perceptual abnormalities/hallucinations (OR = 0.57) and disorganized communication (OR = 0.54). The variance explained by age ranged from R2 = 0.044 for unusual thought content to R2 = 0.144 for perceptual abnormalities. Conclusion: Our results highlighted the role of age and, thereby, neurodevelopment in psychosis‐risk assessment.
- Subjects
PSYCHOSES; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; RISK assessment in genetic engineering; AGE of consent
- Publication
Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2019, Vol 13, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
1751-7885
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/eip.12444