ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2021
Need for Ethnic and Population Diversity in Psychosis Research.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A Systematic Review Exploring the Relationship Between Family Factors and Symptom Severity, Relapse and Social or Occupational Functioning in First-Episode Psychosis.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- A call for greater diversity and representativeness within countries in psychiatric research: lessons and challenges from a systematic review of schizophrenia research in Brazil.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical Effectiveness of Muscarinic Receptor-Targeted Interventions in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review.CNS drugs · 2022Pooled it
- Loneliness is associated with cognitive impairment in patients with schizophrenia: the mediating roles of sleep quality and anxiety.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Thoughts Falling Apart: Disorganized Schizotypy Specifically Predicts Both Psychotic- and Stress-Reactivity in Daily Life.Journal of personality · 2026Article
- Searching for people with psychosis in the global south: mapping and establishing a case surveillance system in South Africa (PSYMAP-ZN study).Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Plasma microRNA signatures in drug-naïve Romanian adolescents with first-episode psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Combining the Risk: The Poly-Environmental Risk Score and Psychotic Symptoms in Adolescents.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
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- A Review of Reviews of Patient-Reported Measures in Psychosis: Need to Consider Factors Affecting Equity and the Involvement of Patients.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2025Review
- Indigenous-non-Indigenous disparities in health and social outcomes 5 years after first episode psychosis: national cohort study.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Self-stigma, religiosity, and perceived social support in people with recent-onset psychosis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Associations with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Article
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging in schizophrenia: current evidence, methodological advances, limitations and future directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- Bridging the gap: improving correspondence between low-field and high-field magnetic resonance images in young people.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Understanding and responding to the drivers of inequalities in mental health.BMJ mental health · 2023Article
- Cannabis use and psychotic disorders in diverse settings in the Global South: findings from INTREPID II.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Cumulative Environmental Risk in Early Life: Associations With Schizotypy in Childhood.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- The Critical Roles of Early Development, Stress, and Environment in the Course of Psychosis.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
This article aims to evaluate "racial", ethnic, and population diversity-or lack thereof-in psychosis research, with a particular focus on socio-environmental studies. Samples of psychosis research remain heavily biased toward Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Furthermore, we often fail to acknowledge the lack of diversity, thereby implying that our findings can be generalized to all populations regardless of their social, ethnic, and cultural background. This has major consequences. Clinical trials generate findings that are not generalizable across ethnicity. The genomic-based prediction models are far from being applicable to the "Majority World." Socio-environmental theories of psychosis are solely based on findings of the empirical studies conducted in WEIRD populations. If and how these socio-environmental factors affect individuals in entirely different geographic locations, gene pools, social structures and norms, cultures, and potentially protective counter-factors remain unclear. How socio-environmental factors are assessed and studied is another major shortcoming. By embracing the complexity of environment, the exposome paradigm may facilitate the evaluation of interdependent exposures, which could explain how variations in socio-environmental factors across different social and geographical settings could contribute to divergent paths to psychosis. Testing these divergent paths to psychosis will however require increasing the diversity of study populations that could be achieved by establishing true partnerships between WEIRD societies and the Majority World with the support of funding agencies aspired to foster replicable research across diverse populations. The time has come to make diversity in psychosis research more than a buzzword.
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