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European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2/2013

Open Access 01-02-2013 | Original Contribution

Season of birth effect on psychotic-like experiences in Japanese adolescents

Authors: Mamoru Tochigi, Atsushi Nishida, Shinji Shimodera, Yuji Okazaki, Tsukasa Sasaki

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 2/2013

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Abstract

A number of studies have investigated seasonality of birth in schizophrenia. Most of the studies have consistently observed an excess of winter births, often associated with decreased summer births. We postulated that psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), subclinical hallucinatory and delusional experiences, may also be affected by birth season. In the present study, we assessed the season of birth effect on the prevalence of PLEs using data from the cross-sectional survey of 19,436 Japanese adolescents. As a result, significant excess of winter births was observed in the prevalence of PLEs, accompanied by a decreased proportion of summer births. The odds ratios for the prevalence of PLEs were estimated to be 1.11, which was on the same order with those for the development of schizophrenia in the previous meta-analytic studies. To our knowledge, this is the first to show the seasonality of birth in the prevalence of PLEs and implicate the winter birth effect on subclinical stage of schizophrenia.
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Metadata
Title
Season of birth effect on psychotic-like experiences in Japanese adolescents
Authors
Mamoru Tochigi
Atsushi Nishida
Shinji Shimodera
Yuji Okazaki
Tsukasa Sasaki
Publication date
01-02-2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-012-0326-1

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