Trauma and psychotic experiences: transnational data from the World Mental Health Survey

John J McGrath1, Sukanta Saha2, Carmen C W Lim2

  • 1John J. McGrath, MD, PhD, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, and Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, and National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Sukanta Saha, PhD, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, and Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia; Carmen C. W. Lim, MSc, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia; Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, California, USA; Jordi Alonso, MD, PhD, Health Services Research Unit, IMIM-Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain and CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain; Laura H. Andrade, MD, PhD, Section of Psychiatric Epidemiology - LIM 23, Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil; Evelyn J. Bromet, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA; Ronny Bruffaerts, PhD, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (UPC-KUL), Campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium; José M. Caldas de Almeida, MD, PhD, Chronic Diseases Research Center (CEDOC) and Department of Mental Health, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, (Campo dos Mártires da Pátria), Lisbon, Portugal; Graça Cardoso, MD, PhD, Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health and Chronic Diseases Research Center (CEDOC), Nova Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Giovanni de Girolamo, MD, Unit of Epidemiological and Evaluation Psychiatry, Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) - St. John of God Clinical Research Centre, Brescia, Italy; John Fayyad, MD, Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy & Applied Care (IDRAAC), Beirut, Lebanon; Silvia Florescu, MD, PhD, National School of Public Health, Management and Professional Development, Bucharest, Romania; Oye Gureje, MD, DSc, FRCPsych, Department of Psychiatry, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria; Josep M. Haro, MD, PhD, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Norito Kawakami, MD, DMSc, Department of Mental Health, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Karestan C. Koenen, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Viviane Kovess-Masfety, MD, PhD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP), EA 4057 Paris Descartes University, Paris, France; Sing Lee, MBBS, Department of Psychiatry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong; Jean-Pierre Lepine, MD, Hôpital Lariboisière- Fernand widal, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Universités Paris Descartes-Paris Diderot and INSERM UMR-S 1144, Paris, France; Katie A. McLaughlin, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; Maria E. Medina-Mora, PhD, National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico City, Mexico; Fernando Navarro-Mateu, MD, PhD, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERESP-Murcia, Subdirección General de Salud Mental y Asistencia Psiquiátrica, Servicio Murciano delusional experiences Salud, El Palmar (Murcia), Spain; Akin Ojagbemi, PhD, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan; University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria; Jose Posada-villa, MD, Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bogota, Colombia; Nancy Sampson, BA, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Kate M. Scott, PhD, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand; Hisateru Tachimori, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; Margreet ten Have, PhD, Trimbos-Instituut, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Netherlands; Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA; Ronald C. Kessler, PhD, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA j.mcgrath@uq.edu.au.

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