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Open Access 01-11-2017 | Original Paper

The interplay of psychosis and victimisation across the life course: a prospective study in the general population

Authors: Steven Honings, Marjan Drukker, Margreet ten Have, Ron de Graaf, Saskia van Dorsselaer, Jim van Os

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 11/2017

Abstract

Purpose

Psychosis has been associated with adult victimisation. However, it remains unclear whether psychosis predicts incident adult victimisation, or whether adult victimisation predicts incident psychosis. Furthermore, a moderating effect of childhood victimisation on the association between psychosis and adult victimisation has not been investigated.

Methods

The longitudinal association between baseline psychotic experiences and six-year incidence of adult victimisation was assessed in a prospective general population cohort of 6646 adults using logistic regression analysis. The association between baseline adult victimisation and six-year incidence of psychotic experiences was examined as well. Furthermore, the moderating effect of childhood victimisation on these bidirectional associations was analysed.

Results

Psychotic experiences and childhood victimisation were both associated with an increased risk of incident adult victimisation. However, this was through competing pathways, as suggested by a negative interaction between psychotic experiences and childhood victimisation. Baseline adult victimisation and childhood victimisation both independently increased the risk of incident psychotic experiences, but there was no interaction between adult victimisation and childhood victimisation.

Conclusions

Psychosis and victimisation are interconnected throughout the life course. Childhood victimisation is connected to psychosis through two pathways: one direct and one indirect through adult victimisation. In individuals without childhood victimisation, psychosis and adult victimisation bidirectionally impact on each other.

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Title: The interplay of psychosis and victimisation across the life course: a prospective study in the general population
Authors: Steven Honings
Marjan Drukker
Margreet ten Have
Ron de Graaf
Saskia van Dorsselaer
Jim van Os
Publication date: 01-11-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 11/2017
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-017-1430-9

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