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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 9/2013

01-09-2013 | Original Paper

Psychotic disorders are more common in ethnic minority than in Dutch native defendants

Authors: David J. Vinkers, Jean-Paul Selten, Hans W. Hoek, Thomas Rinne

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 9/2013

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Abstract

Purpose

The prevalence of psychotic disorders among prisoners from racial or ethnic minority groups remains uncertain. We therefore compared the frequency of psychotic disorder in ethnic minority and Dutch native defendants using the nationwide database of elaborate pre-trial reports.

Methods

Analysis of a nationwide database of pre-trial reported defendants in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2006 (n = 12,752).

Results

A diagnosis of a psychotic disorder was more common in ethnic minority than in Dutch native defendants (21.1 vs. 10.2 %). The odds ratio of this diagnosis, adjusted for age, gender, IQ below 85 and abuse of cannabis or hard drugs, was 2.6 (95 % CI 2.2–3.0). This odds ratio was highest for African defendants (OR = 5.2; 95 % CI 3.7–7.4).

Conclusions

Psychotic disorders were more common among pre-trial reported defendants from ethnic minorities than among their Dutch native counterparts.
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Metadata
Title
Psychotic disorders are more common in ethnic minority than in Dutch native defendants
Authors
David J. Vinkers
Jean-Paul Selten
Hans W. Hoek
Thomas Rinne
Publication date
01-09-2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 9/2013
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-012-0629-z

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