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Clinical High Risk Symptoms and Criteria in the Community: Prevalence, Clinical Significance and Risk Factors for Their Occurrence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

F. Schultze-Lutter ,
C. Michel ,
B.G. Schimmelmann  and
S. Ruhrmann
F. Schultze-Lutter
Affiliation:
University of Bern, University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Bern 60, Switzerland
C. Michel
Affiliation:
University of Bern, University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Bern 60, Switzerland
B.G. Schimmelmann
Affiliation:
University of Bern, University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Bern 60, Switzerland
S. Ruhrmann
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Abstract

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Introduction

In clinical samples, symptomatic ultra-high risk (UHR) criteria and the basic symptom criterion “cognitive disturbances” perform well in predicting psychosis, and best when both approaches are combined.

Objective

However, little-to-nothing is known about clinical high risk (CHR) and their constituent symptoms in the community.

Aims

We studied the prevalence, clinical relevance, and moderators of CHR criteria and symptoms in the community.

Method

Regression analyses involved 2683 community participants (age 16–40 years; response rate: 63.4%). Semi-structured telephone interviews were performed by well-trained psychologists.

Results

Lifetime and current CHR symptoms were reported by 21.1% and 13.8% of interviewees. Frequency of symptoms was mostly low, only 2.4% met any CHR criterion. A stepwise relationship underlay the association of the two types of CHR symptoms and criteria with the presence of mental disorders and functional deficits, with odds ratios being highest (7.4–31.8) when UHR and basic symptoms occurred together. Report of a family history of mental disorder generally increased risk for CHR symptoms. While younger age increased risk for basic symptoms, lifetime substance misuse and trauma increased risk for UHR symptoms.

Conclusions

Prevalence of CHR criteria was within the to-be-expected range from prevalence rates of psychoses. Clinical relevance of both CHR symptoms and criteria increased in a stepwise manner from basic symptoms via UHR symptoms to their combined presence, reinforcing the clinical utility of their combined use. The risk factors selectively associated with basic and UHR symptoms support developmental models relating basic symptoms to neurobiological and UHR symptoms to psychological factors.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-poster walk: Classification of mental disorders and cultural psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S226
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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