ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2015
Prevalence of psychosis in black ethnic minorities in Britain: analysis based on three national surveys.
Article in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 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
18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Associations between ethnicity and mental health problems among children and adolescents in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Thinking biases and their role in persecutory delusions: A systematic review.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Evidence for interventions to promote mental health and reduce stigma in Black faith communities: systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Pooled it
- Psychometric properties of WHO's schedules for clinical assessment in neuropsychiatry (SCAN): a systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Review
- The role of trauma, attachment, dissociation, and alexithymia in pathways to negative symptoms in psychosis.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Trauma and social pathways to psychosis: Examining the role of attachment, social rank and dissociation in a clinical sample.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Exploring the Characteristics of Men Aged 55+ Who Use Mental Health Community Care and Support Services: A Secondary Analysis of the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Study in England.Journal of aging and health · 2025Article
- The revised Psychosis Attachment Measure: further psychometric evidence.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Effects of ethnic density on the risk of compulsory psychiatric admission for individuals attending secondary care mental health services: evidence from a large-scale study in England.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- The role of attachment and dissociation in the relationship between childhood interpersonal trauma and negative symptoms in psychosis.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2022Article
- The Role and Clinical Correlates of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in People With Psychosis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Characteristics associated with the risk of psychosis among immigrants and their descendants in France.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Mental illness stigma after a decade of Time to Change England: inequalities as targets for further improvement.European journal of public health · 2020Article
- Where next for understanding race/ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness? Structural, interpersonal and institutional racism.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- Subclinical psychosis in adult migrants and ethnic minorities: systematic review and meta-analysis.BJPsych open · 2018Review
- Assessing needs for psychiatric treatment in prisoners: 1. Prevalence of disorder.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Article
- At risk or not at risk? A meta-analysis of the prognostic accuracy of psychometric interviews for psychosis prediction.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2015Article
- Ethnic inequalities in severe mental disorders: where is the harm?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeA considerable excess of psychosis in black ethnic minorities is apparent from clinical studies, in Britain, as in other developed economies with white majority populations. This excess is not so marked in population surveys. Equitable health service provision should be informed by the best estimates of the excess. We used national survey data to establish the difference in the prevalence of psychosis between black ethnic groups and the white majority in the British general population.
methodsAnalysis of the combined datasets (N = 26,091) from the British national mental health surveys of 1993, 2000 and 2007. Cases of psychosis were determined either by the use of the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN), or from a combination of screening items. We controlled for sex, age, social class, unemployment, design features and other putative confounders, using a Disease Risk Score.
resultsPeople from black ethnic minorities had an excess prevalence rate of psychosis compared with the white majority population. The OR, weighted for study design and response rate, was 2.72 (95 % CI 1.3-5.6, p = 0.002). This was marginally increased after controlling for potential confounders (OR = 2.90, 95 % CI 1.4-6.2, p = 0.006).
conclusionsThe excess of psychosis in black ethnic minority groups was similar to that in two previous British community surveys, and less than that based on clinical studies. Even so it confirms a considerable need for increased mental health service resources in areas with high proportions of black ethnic minority inhabitants.
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.