‘Adolescent psychotic experiences before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study’
Paper from the JCPP
Understanding the etiology of psychosis is essential to the development of preventive interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a rare natural experiment that can expand our understanding of the role of social factors in the trajectories and etiology of psychosis across adolescence, particularly in Tokyo where the prevalence of actual COVID-19 infection remained low. We hypothesized that the likelihood of self-reporting psychotic experiences (PEs) would increase following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Jordan DeVylder, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Mariko Hosozawa, Syudo Yamasaki, Shuntaro Ando, Mitsuhiro Miyashita, Kaori Endo, Daniel Stanyon, Satoshi Usami, Sho Kanata, Riki Tanaka, Rin Minami, Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, Kiyoto Kasai, Atsushi Nishida
First published: 13 November 2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13907
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