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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 8/2006

01-08-2006 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Social disadvantage and schizophrenia

A combined neighbourhood and individual-level analysis

Authors: Marjan Drukker, PhD, Lydia Krabbendam, PhD, Ger Driessen, MA, Jim van Os, MD, PhD

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 8/2006

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Abstract

Objective

To study, in a geographically defined area, associations between the neighbourhood social environment and individual socioeconomic status on the one hand, and treated incidence of schizophrenia and level of subsequent service use on the other.

Method

A combined data set of (i) patients with a case register diagnosis of schizophrenia and (ii) population controls was subjected to multilevel analyses, including neighbourhood exposures (neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital) and individual level confounders. Separate analyses were conducted for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric service consumption as indexed by the case register.

Results

Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and neighbourhood social capital did not impact on the treated incidence of schizophrenia, but quantity of inpatient service consumption was higher in neighbourhoods with higher level of social control (i.e. where it is more likely that neighbours intervene in neighbourhood-threatening situations). In addition, most indicators of lower individual socioeconomic status were associated with higher treated incidence, while treated incidence was lower when individual educational status was low.

Conclusion

Residents of high social control neighbourhoods may seek greater levels of resolution of psychiatric disorder in patient-residents, and by consequence may induce greater levels of inpatient service consumption in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Individual-level indicators of social disadvantage are associated with higher risk of treated psychotic disorder, with the exception of lower educational status, which may confer a lower probability of treatment given the presence of psychotic disorder.
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Metadata
Title
Social disadvantage and schizophrenia
A combined neighbourhood and individual-level analysis
Authors
Marjan Drukker, PhD
Lydia Krabbendam, PhD
Ger Driessen, MA
Jim van Os, MD, PhD
Publication date
01-08-2006
Publisher
Steinkopff-Verlag
Published in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 8/2006
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-006-0081-z

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