Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00223-2
Vardan Nersesjan, Rune H B Christensen, Elisabeth Wreford Andersen, Daniel Kondziella, Michael E Benros
{"title":"Antipsychotic exposure and infection risk in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Danish nationwide registry study.","authors":"Vardan Nersesjan, Rune H B Christensen, Elisabeth Wreford Andersen, Daniel Kondziella, Michael E Benros","doi":"10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00223-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00223-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Infection risk and mortality are increased in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, which was corroborated during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, evidence is lacking regarding the additional impact of antipsychotic drugs, and the highly debated safety of clozapine treatment during large-scale infection outbreaks. Therefore, we aimed to investigate risk of COVID-19 and non-COVID respiratory infections during exposure to antipsychotics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used several nationwide Danish registers (National Prescription Registry, National Hospital Registry, Psychiatric Research Register, Microbiology Database, Vaccination Registry, Cause of Death Registry, and Database for Labour market Research) to investigate all individuals aged 18 years or older with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (ICD-10: F20-F29) living in Denmark between Jan 1 and March 1, 2020. Antipsychotic exposure groups were defined as prevalent-users and incident-users. The full observation period was March 1, 2020 to Dec 31, 2021. Antipsychotic exposure was defined in a time-varying manner and compared with non-exposure. Risk was calculated for mild infection outcomes (positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR and anti-infective drug prescriptions) and severe infection outcomes (hospitalisation and death) related to COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 respiratory infections. Outcomes were adjusted for demographics, socio-economic factors, and comorbidity.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Of 85 083 individuals (44 293 men [52·1%] and 40 790 women [47·9%], median age 45·8 years [IQR 31·1-60·2]) with pre-existing schizophrenia spectrum disorders, 30 984 had antipsychotic exposure periods. Ethnicity data were not available. During antipsychotic exposure compared with non-exposed periods, assessing mild infection outcomes, risk of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test was decreased (hazard ratio 0·91 [95% CI 0·85-0·97]) and risk of redeeming an anti-infective drug was not statistically significantly different (1·01 [0·97-1·06]). For severe infection outcomes, COVID-19-related hospitalisation risk was increased (1·28 [1·07-1·52]) although COVID-19-related death was not statistically significantly increased (1·24 [0·82-1·86]). For non-COVID-19 respiratory infections, risk was increased both for hospitalisation (1·61 [1·44-1·79]) and death (1·61 [1·18-2·21]). Specifically, COVID-19 hospitalisation risk was increased in individuals older than 70 years, and non-COVID-19 hospitalisation risk increased in individuals older than 40 years and death risk in age groups of 50-59 years and 70-79 years. Based on homogeneity testing, no apparent excess risk of any outcome was observed with clozapine exposure compared with other antipsychotics.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>During antipsychotic exposure compared with unexposed periods, risk of severe infection outcomes increases. It seems reasonable to initiate infection countermeasures, such as pneumococcal vaccination, in people older tha","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"796-806"},"PeriodicalIF":30.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142146614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00281-5
Md Omar Faruk
{"title":"The mental health challenges of student protest in Bangladesh.","authors":"Md Omar Faruk","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00281-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00281-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"35 1","pages":"791-792"},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142273566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00249-9
Jurjen J Luykx,Robbert Visscher,Inge Winter-van Rossum,Patrick Waters,Lot D de Witte,W Wolfgang Fleischhacker,Bochao Danae Lin,Nini de Boer,Marte van der Horst,Ksenija Yeeles,Michael Davidson,Thomas A Pollak,Alkomiet Hasan,Belinda R Lennox
{"title":"Clinical symptoms and psychosocial functioning in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders testing seropositive for anti-NMDAR antibodies: a case-control comparison with patients testing negative.","authors":"Jurjen J Luykx,Robbert Visscher,Inge Winter-van Rossum,Patrick Waters,Lot D de Witte,W Wolfgang Fleischhacker,Bochao Danae Lin,Nini de Boer,Marte van der Horst,Ksenija Yeeles,Michael Davidson,Thomas A Pollak,Alkomiet Hasan,Belinda R Lennox","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00249-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00249-9","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUNDAntibodies against the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) have been described in the serum of people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (schizophrenia). However, the prevalence and clinical relevance of these antibodies in schizophrenia is unclear. This knowledge gap includes the possibility of such antibodies being associated with a distinct clinical profile, which in turn might warrant a distinct treatment approach. We aimed to assess the seroprevalence of anti-NMDAR antibodies in schizophrenia, and compare symptoms and psychosocial functioning between patients with schizophrenia who were seropositive and seronegative for these antibodies.METHODSIn this case-control comparison, by combining new and existing studies, we included patients diagnosed with schizophrenia from four independent cohorts for whom anti-NMDAR serostatus had been assessed (or could be assessed by us) with live cell-based assays. Included cohorts were from the EULAST study (a trial conducted across 15 European countries and Israel), the OPTiMiSE study (an interventional study in Europe), and the PPiP1 and PPiP2 studies (conducted in the UK). Patients from these cohorts were analysed if they had complete Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) data. No participant had been diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis or received treatment for this condition. After calculating the prevalence of serum anti-NMDAR antibodies, we examined possible differences in PANSS scores (negative, positive, and general symptom subscales, and total score) between anti-NMDAR-seropositive and anti-NMDAR-seronegative patients. Psychosocial functioning as measured by Personal Social Performance (PSP) score was also compared. All analyses were exploratory and no adjustment was done for multiple testing. People with lived experience were not involved in the conduct of this study.FINDINGSWe collected individual patient data from 1114 patients with schizophrenia across the four cohorts. The study population had a mean age of 28·6 years (SD 7·6) and comprised 382 (34·3%) women and 732 (65·7%) men, including patients of White (929 [83·4%]), Asian (54 [4·8%]), Black (68 [6·1%]), and other (62 [5·6%]) ethnicities. Overall, 41 (3·7%) participants (range 3·1-4·0% across cohorts) tested positive for serum anti-NMDAR antibodies. Lower symptom severity on the negative symptoms PANSS subscale was observed for anti-NMDAR-seropositive patients (mean score 15·8 [SD 6·4]) than for anti-NMDAR-seronegative patients (18·2 [6·8]; Cohen's d=0·36; p=0·026), as well as on the general symptoms PANSS subscale (32·9 [8·9] vs 36·1 [10·1]; d=0·33; p=0·029) and total PANSS score (65·5 [18·5] vs 72·6 [19·3]; d=0·37; p=0·013). Mean PSP score was better in anti-NMDAR-positive patients (62·0 [17·0]) than in anti-NMDAR-negative patients (53·5 [16·3]; d=0·52; p=0·014).INTERPRETATIONSerum NMDAR antibodies are present in 3-4% of patients with schizophrenia and are associated with relatively low severity of negative sympt","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"213 1","pages":"828-838"},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142273568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00283-9
James Downs
{"title":"Restoring and re-storying the possibility of recovery.","authors":"James Downs","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00283-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00283-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"414 1","pages":"794-795"},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142273562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00251-7
Nguyen K Tran, Elle Lett, Barbara Cassese, Carl G Streed, David J Kinitz, Shalonda Ingram, Karalin Sprague, Zubin Dastur, Micah E Lubensky, Annesa Flentje, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Mitchell R Lunn
{"title":"Conversion practice recall and mental health symptoms in sexual and gender minority adults in the USA: a cross-sectional study","authors":"Nguyen K Tran, Elle Lett, Barbara Cassese, Carl G Streed, David J Kinitz, Shalonda Ingram, Karalin Sprague, Zubin Dastur, Micah E Lubensky, Annesa Flentje, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Mitchell R Lunn","doi":"10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00251-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00251-7","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Background</h3>Conversion practices are associated with psychological morbidity, yet few studies have evaluated differences between efforts to change gender identity, sexual orientation, or both. We aimed to examine the individual and joint association of conversion practice recall targeted at gender identity or sexual orientation, or both, with current mental health symptoms among sexual and gender minority people.<h3>Methods</h3>This cross-sectional study used data from The PRIDE Study, a US-based, online, prospective cohort study of sexual and gender minority adults who were recruited through social media, digital advertisements, and sexual and gender minority community-based events and organisations. For this analysis, we included participants who completed a lifetime questionnaire in 2019–20 and a subsequent annual questionnaire in 2020–21 without missing outcome data. All questionnaires were in English. The exposure was lifetime recall of conversion practice targeting gender identity alone, sexual orientation alone, or both (versus no conversion practice). Mental health outcomes were continuous measures: Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale, Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (depression) scale, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist 6-item scale, and Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire–Revised scale. We used linear regression to analyse the associations of conversion practice recall and mental health symptoms, controlling for demographic and childhood factors and stratified between cisgender and transgender and gender diverse groups. Sensitivity analyses evaluated the potential impact of unmeasured confounding. Analyses were conducted in R. We included people with related lived experience in the design and implementation of this study.<h3>Findings</h3>Of 6601 participants who completed the lifetime questionnaire in 2019–20, 4440 completed the subsequent annual questionnaire in 2020 or 2021, and 4426 did not have missing outcome data. Of the 4426 included participants, 4073 (92·0%) identified as White (either alone or in combination with other ethnoracial options), 460 (10·4%) identified with multiple ethnoracial identities, and 1923 (43·4%) were transgender and gender diverse. Participants' age ranged from 18 years to 84 years (median 31·7 years, IQR 25·5–44·1). 149 (3·4%) participants reported sexual orientation-related conversion practice alone, 43 (1·0%) reported gender identity-related conversion practice alone, and 42 (1·0%) reported both. Recalling both forms of conversion practice was most strongly associated with greater post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD; β 2·84, 95% CI 0·94–4·74) and suicidality (2·14, 0·95–3·32) symptoms. Recall of only sexual orientation-related conversion practice was associated with greater symptoms of PTSD (1·10, 0·22–1·98). Recall of gender identity-related conversion practice alone was most strongly associated with greater depressive symptoms (3·24, 1·03–5·46). Only associations for suicidality d","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":"121 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142363245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet PsychiatryPub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00288-8
Jennifer L Gordon, Sneha Chenji, Arianna Di Florio, Liisa Hantsoo, Sandi MacDonald, Jessica R Peters, Jaclyn M Ross, Katja Schmalenberger, Tory A Eisenlohr-Moul
{"title":"Suicidality should be considered for inclusion in the diagnostic criteria for PMDD.","authors":"Jennifer L Gordon, Sneha Chenji, Arianna Di Florio, Liisa Hantsoo, Sandi MacDonald, Jessica R Peters, Jaclyn M Ross, Katja Schmalenberger, Tory A Eisenlohr-Moul","doi":"10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00288-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00288-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48784,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":30.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142299136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}