%0 Journal Article
%T Ethnicity, social disadvantage and psychotic‐like experiences in a healthy population based sample
%J Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
%D 2009
%A Morgan, C.
%A Fisher, H.
%A Hutchinson, G.
%A Kirkbride, J.
%A Craig, T. K.
%A Morgan, K.
%A Dazzan, P.
%A Boydell, Jane E.
%A Doody, G. A.
%A Jones, P. B.
%A Murray, R. M.
%A Leff, J.
%A Fearon, P.
%V 119
%N 3
%P 226-235
%X <p><b>Objective: </b> We sought to investigate the prevalence and social correlates of psychotic‐like experiences in a general population sample of Black and White British subjects.</p> <p><b>Method: </b> Data were collected from randomly selected community control subjects, recruited as part of the ÆSOP study, a three‐centre population based study of first‐episode psychosis.</p> <p><b>Results: </b> The proportion of subjects reporting one or more psychotic‐like experience was 19% (<i>n</i> = 72/372). These were more common in Black Caribbean (OR 2.08) and Black African subjects (OR 4.59), compared with White British. In addition, a number of indicators of childhood and adult disadvantage were associated with psychotic‐like experiences. When these variables were simultaneously entered into a regression model, Black African ethnicity, concentrated adult disadvantage, and separation from parents retained a significant effect.</p> <p><b>Conclusion: </b> The higher prevalence of psychotic‐like experiences in the Black Caribbean, but not Black African, group was explained by high levels of social disadvantage over the life course.</p><p />
%G 
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 0001-690X
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01301.x