ArticlePloS one2014
The impact of social deprivation on paranoia, hallucinations, mania and depression: the role of discrimination social support, stress and trust.
Article in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
50 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Associations of physical activity during pregnancy with antenatal and postpartum depression: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Pooled it
- Perceived discrimination and psychosis: a systematic review of the literature.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Dopamine manipulations modulate paranoid social inferences in healthy people.Translational psychiatry · 2020Trial
- Mental health and burnout among Swiss medical students living in contexts of deprivation: a longitudinal study.BMJ open · 2026Article
- The Effects of Occupational Stress and Stress Management on the Performance of Frontline Healthcare Service Workers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- COVID-19 and risk of first-time major depressive disorder in patients without history of psychiatric disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2026Observational
- An identity-based cognitive model of self-schemata, perceived social support and paranoid ideation: data from lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals.Cogent mental health · 2026Article
- Differences in postpartum depressive symptoms across survey waves among Chinese mothers and their association with structural resources: a repeated cross-sectional study based on CFPS data.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Hospital admissions for undocumented immigrants: a comparative analysis of French healthcare coverage schemes.European journal of public health · 2025Article
- Charles Bonnet syndrome in adults with inherited retinal disease: prevalence and patient perspectives.BMJ open ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Expanding Early Psychosis Care across a Large and Diverse State: Implementation Lessons Learned from Administrative Data and Clinical Team Leads in Texas.Administration and policy in mental health · 2023Article
- Paranoid Thinking as a Function of Minority Group Status and Intersectionality: An International Examination of the Role of Negative Beliefs.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Conceptualization of moral injury: A socio-cognitive perspective.Journal of military, veteran and family health · 2023Article
- The role of social deprivation and depression in dementia risk: findings from the longitudinal survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2023Article
- Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio-functional model of conspiracy beliefs.The British journal of social psychology · 2023Article
- The weaponization of medicine: Early psychosis in the Black community and the need for racially informed mental healthcare.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- The journey of adolescent paranoia: A qualitative study with patients attending child and adolescent mental health services.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2022Article
- Progressive and degenerative journals: on the growth and appraisal of knowledge in scholarly publishing.European journal for philosophy of science · 2022Article
- Empathy, Emotion Recognition, and Paranoia in the General Population.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The negative implications of living in a socially unequal society are now well documented. However, there is poor understanding of the pathways from specific environmental risk to symptoms. Here we examine the associations between social deprivation, depression, and psychotic symptoms using the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, a cross-sectional dataset including 7,353 individuals. In addition we looked at the mediating role of stress, discrimination, trust and lack of social support. We found that the participants' neighbourhood index of multiple deprivation (IMD) significantly predicted psychosis and depression. On inspection of specific psychotic symptoms, IMD predicted paranoia, but not hallucinations or hypomania. Stress and trust partially mediated the relationship between IMD and paranoid ideation. Stress, trust and a lack of social support fully mediated the relationship between IMD and depression. Future research should focus on the role deprivation and social inequalities plays in specific manifestations of psychopathology and investigate mechanisms to explain those associations that occur. Targeting the mediating mechanisms through appropriate psychological intervention may go some way to dampen the negative consequences of living in an unjust society; ameliorating economic injustice may improve population mental health.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.