Adolescent psychotic experiences before and during the Covid ‐19 pandemic

A prospective cohort study

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ID21344710
AuthorsJordan Devylder (0000-0001-5873-4582, Graduate School of Social Service Fordham University New York NY USA), Satoshi Yamaguchi (0000-0003-3531-124X, Unit for Mental Health Promotion, Research Center for Social Science and Medicine Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Tokyo Japan), Mariko Hosozawa (0000-0001-6886-5156, Institute for Global Health Policy Research, Bureau of International Health Cooperation National Center for Global Health and Medicine Tokyo Japan), Syudo Yamasaki (0000-0002-9016-6404, Unit for Mental Health Promotion, Research Center for Social Science and Medicine Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Tokyo Japan), Shuntaro Ando (0000-0003-1595-693X, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan), Mitsuhiro Miyashita (0000-0002-7798-1834, Unit for Mental Health Promotion, Research Center for Social Science and Medicine Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Tokyo Japan), Kaori Endo (0000-0003-0854-5120, Unit for Mental Health Promotion, Research Center for Social Science and Medicine Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Tokyo Japan), Daniel Stanyon (0000-0001-9207-2324, Unit for Mental Health Promotion, Research Center for Social Science and Medicine Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Tokyo Japan), Satoshi Usami (0000-0002-5670-2242, Center for Research and Development on Transition from Secondary to Higher Education The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan), Sho Kanata (0000-0002-7797-575X, Department of Psychiatry Teikyo University School of Medicine Tokyo Japan), Riki Tanaka (0000-0002-0483-3750, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan), Rin Minami (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan), Mariko Hiraiwa‐hasegawa (0000-0003-1364-1395, Unit for Mental Health Promotion, Research Center for Social Science and Medicine Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Tokyo Japan), Kazutaka Kasai (0000-0002-4443-4535, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project), Kiyoto Kasai (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan), Atsushi Nishida (0000-0001-6451-7699, Unit for Mental Health Promotion, Research Center for Social Science and Medicine Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science Tokyo Japan, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume65
Issue6
Pages776-784
Publication date2024-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9630 • E-ISSN: 1469-7610
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jcpp.13907
PMID37953733
OpenAlexW4388635361
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

BACKGROUND: Understanding the etiology of psychosis is essential to the development of preventive interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a rare natural experiment that can expand our understanding of the role of social factors in the trajectories and etiology of psychosis across adolescence, particularly in Tokyo where the prevalence of actual COVID-19 infection remained low. We hypothesized that the likelihood of self-reporting psychotic experiences (PEs) would increase following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The Tokyo Teen Cohort (TTC) is a prospective cohort study of adolescents in the general population of the Tokyo metropolitan area, followed from age 10 to 16 years. We used multi-level linear regression models to test the associations between the phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and self-reported PEs. RESULTS: Among 1935 adolescents included in the analysis, a rapid increase in PEs occurred at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, following approximately 6 years of steady decline across prior waves. This association was more pronounced for boys compared to girls. This increase became more pronounced as the pandemic moved into later phases, defined based on contemporaneous sociopolitical changes in Tokyo (i.e. changes to school closure, social distancing guidelines, and the state of emergency status). CONCLUSIONS: The steady decline in PEs across adolescence was halted and reversed concurrent with the COVID-19 pandemic onset, despite very low rates of COVID-19 infection. This implicates COVID-19 related socioenvironmental factors as contributory etiological factors in the development of PEs in this adolescent cohort

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Cohort · Cohort study · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Developmental psychology · Disease · Outbreak · Pandemic · Prospective cohort study · Psychiatry · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Clinical Psychology · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment · Virology

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