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{"title":"Trends in incidence of self-harm, neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions among university students compared with the general population: nationwide electronic data linkage study in Wales.","authors":"Ann John, Olivier Y Rouquette, Sze Chim Lee, Jo Smith, Marcos Del Pozo Baños","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.90","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjp.2024.90","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Concern that self-harm and mental health conditions are increasing in university students may reflect widening access to higher education, existing population trends and/or stressors associated with this setting.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To compare population-level data on self-harm, neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions between university students and non-students with similar characteristics before and during enrolment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This cohort study linked electronic records from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for 2012-2018 to primary and secondary healthcare records. Students were undergraduates aged 18 to 24 years at university entry. Non-students were pseudo-randomly selected based on an equivalent age distribution. Logistic regressions were used to calculate odds ratios. Poisson regressions were used to calculate incidence rate ratios (IRR).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study included 96 760 students and 151 795 non-students. Being male, self-harm and mental health conditions recorded before university entry, and higher deprivation levels, resulted in lower odds of becoming a student and higher odds of drop-out from university. IRRs for self-harm, depression, anxiety, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), drug use and schizophrenia were lower for students. IRRs for self-harm, depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, ASD, alcohol use and schizophrenia increased more in students than in non-students over time. Older students experienced greater risk of self-harm and mental health conditions, whereas younger students were more at risk of alcohol use than non-student counterparts.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Mental health conditions in students are common and diverse. While at university, students require person-centred stepped care, integrated with local third-sector and healthcare services to address specific conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"389-400"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11536190/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141900929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development and initial evaluation of a clinical prediction model for risk of treatment resistance in first-episode psychosis: Schizophrenia Prediction of Resistance to Treatment (SPIRIT).","authors":"Saeed Farooq, Miriam Hattle, Tom Kingstone, Olesya Ajnakina, Paola Dazzan, Arsime Demjaha, Robin M Murray, Marta Di Forti, Peter B Jones, Gillian A Doody, David Shiers, Gabrielle Andrews, Abbie Milner, Maria Antonietta Nettis, Andrew J Lawrence, Danielle A van der Windt, Richard D Riley","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.101","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjp.2024.101","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A clinical tool to estimate the risk of treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) in people with first-episode psychosis (FEP) would inform early detection of TRS and overcome the delay of up to 5 years in starting TRS medication.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To develop and evaluate a model that could predict the risk of TRS in routine clinical practice.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We used data from two UK-based FEP cohorts (GAP and AESOP-10) to develop and internally validate a prognostic model that supports identification of patients at high-risk of TRS soon after FEP diagnosis. Using sociodemographic and clinical predictors, a model for predicting risk of TRS was developed based on penalised logistic regression, with missing data handled using multiple imputation. Internal validation was undertaken via bootstrapping, obtaining optimism-adjusted estimates of the model's performance. Interviews and focus groups with clinicians were conducted to establish clinically relevant risk thresholds and understand the acceptability and perceived utility of the model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We included seven factors in the prediction model that are predominantly assessed in clinical practice in patients with FEP. The model predicted treatment resistance among the 1081 patients with reasonable accuracy; the model's C-statistic was 0.727 (95% CI 0.723-0.732) prior to shrinkage and 0.687 after adjustment for optimism. Calibration was good (expected/observed ratio: 0.999; calibration-in-the-large: 0.000584) after adjustment for optimism.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We developed and internally validated a prediction model with reasonably good predictive metrics. Clinicians, patients and carers were involved in the development process. External validation of the tool is needed followed by co-design methodology to support implementation in early intervention services.</p>","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"379-388"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11536189/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141888493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gambling disorder in the arts: Caravaggio's 'The Cardsharps' - Psychiatry in art.","authors":"Filippo Besana, Jacopo Santambrogio, Giovanna Cirnigliaro","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 3","pages":"415"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142567332","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}

{"title":"Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach: commentary, Malhi et al.","authors":"Gin S Malhi, Guy Kahane, Julian Savulescu","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 2","pages":"343-344"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142458523","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}

{"title":"Is it now time to prepare psychiatry for a psychedelic future?","authors":"David Nutt, Ilana Crome, Allan H Young","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.76","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjp.2024.76","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Australia has just rescheduled two drugs controlled under the United Nations Psychotropic Drug Conventions, psilocybin and MDMA, as treatments for treatment-resistant depression and post-traumatic stress disorder respectively. This feature explores the reasons for these developments, the opportunities and challenges they provide to psychiatry communities and how along with health systems these communities might respond to these developments.</p>","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"308-310"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141064975","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}

{"title":"Lipid-modifying agents and risk of all-cause, natural and suicide mortality in schizophrenia: nationwide cohort study.","authors":"Pao-Huan Chen, Shang-Ying Tsai, Po-Yu Chen, Chun-Hung Pan, Sheng-Siang Su, Chiao-Chicy Chen, Chian-Jue Kuo","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.85","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjp.2024.85","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Individuals with schizophrenia face high mortality risks. The effects of lipid-modifying agents on this risk remain understudied.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study was conducted to investigate the effects of lipid-modifying agents on mortality risk in people with schizophrenia.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This nationwide cohort study collected the data of people with schizophrenia from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database for the period between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2019. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression with a time-dependent model was used to estimate the hazard ratio for mortality associated with each lipid-modifying agent.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study included 110 300 people with schizophrenia. Of them, 22 528 died (19 754 from natural causes and 1606 from suicide) during the study period, as confirmed using data from Taiwan's national mortality database. The use of lipid-modifying agents was associated with reduced risks of all-cause (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR]:0.37; <i>P</i> < 0.001) and natural (aHR:0.37; <i>P</i> < 0.001) mortality during a 5-year period. Among the lipid-modifying agents, statins and fibrates were associated with reduced risks of all-cause mortality (aHRs:0.37 and 0.39, respectively; <i>P</i> < 0.001 for both) and natural mortality (aHRs: 0.37 and 0.42, respectively; <i>P</i> < 0.001 for both). Notably, although our univariate analysis indicated an association between the use of lipid-modifying agents and a reduced risk of suicide mortality, the multivariate analysis revealed no significant association.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Lipid-modifying agents, particularly statins and fibrates, reduce the risk of mortality in people with schizophrenia. Appropriate use of lipid-modifying agents may bridge the mortality gap between these individuals and the general population.</p>","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"328-336"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140944080","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}

{"title":"Walking grief - Poem.","authors":"Temitope Ogundare","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 2","pages":"342"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142458524","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}

{"title":"Investigating mental healthcare inequalities associated with forced migration: promise and potential pitfalls of electronic health records.","authors":"Grace Crowley, Angus Roberts, Robert Stewart, Jayati Das-Munshi","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.100","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjp.2024.100","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a lack of data on mental health service utilisation and outcomes for people with experience of forced migration living in the UK. Details about migration experiences documented in free-text fields in electronic health records might be harnessed using novel data science methods; however, there are potential limitations and ethical concerns.</p>","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"305-307"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141791945","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}

{"title":"Efficacy and safety of a 4-week course of repeated subcutaneous ketamine injections for treatment-resistant depression (KADS study): randomised double-blind active-controlled trial - CORRIGENDUM.","authors":"Colleen Loo, Nick Glozier, David Barton, Bernhard T Baune, Natalie T Mills, Paul Fitzgerald, Paul Glue, Shanthi Sarma, Veronica Galvez-Ortiz, Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic, Angelo Alonzo, Vanessa Dong, Donel Martin, Stevan Nikolin, Philip B Mitchell, Michael Berk, Gregory Carter, Maree Hackett, John Leyden, Sean Hood, Andrew A Somogyi, Kyle Lapidus, Elizabeth Stratton, Kirsten Gainsford, Deepak Garg, Nicollette L R Thornton, Célia Fourrier, Karyn Richardson, Demi Rozakis, Anish Scaria, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Mary Lou Chatterton, William M McDonald, Philip Boyce, Paul E Holtzheimer, F Andrew Kozel, Patricio Riva-Posse, Anthony Rodgers","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":"225 2","pages":"349"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142458521","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}

{"title":"Mapping 15-year depressive symptom transitions in late life: population-based cohort study.","authors":"Federico Triolo, Davide Liborio Vetrano, Caterina Trevisan, Linnea Sjöberg, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Martino Belvederi Murri, Laura Fratiglioni, Serhiy Dekhtyar","doi":"10.1192/bjp.2024.84","DOIUrl":"10.1192/bjp.2024.84","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The longitudinal course of late-life depression remains under-studied.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To describe transitions along the depression continuum in old age and to identify factors associated with specific transition patterns.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We analysed 15-year longitudinal data on 2745 dementia-free persons aged 60+ from the population-based Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen. Depression (minor and major) was diagnosed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision; subsyndromal depression (SSD) was operationalised as the presence of ≥2 symptoms without depression. Multistate survival models were used to map depression transitions, including death, and to examine the association of psychosocial (social network, connection and support), lifestyle (smoking, alcohol consumption and physical activity) and clinical (somatic disease count) factors with transition patterns.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Over the follow-up, 19.1% had ≥1 transitions across depressive states, while 6.5% had ≥2. Each additional somatic disease was associated with a higher hazard of progression from no depression (No Dep) to SSD (hazard ratio 1.09; 1.07-1.10) and depression (Dep) (hazard ratio 1.06; 1.04-1.08), but also with a lower recovery (HR_{SSD-No Dep} 0.95; 0.93-0.97 [where 'HR' refers to 'hazard ratio']; HR_{Dep-No Dep} 0.96; 0.93-0.99). Physical activity was associated with an increased hazard of recovery to no depression from SSD (hazard ratio 1.49; 1.28-1.73) and depression (hazard ratio 1.20; 1.00-1.44), while a richer social network was associated with both higher recovery from (HR_{SSD-No Dep} 1.44; 1.26-1.66; HR_{Dep-No Dep} 1.51; 1.34-1.71) and lower progression hazards to a worse depressive state (HR_{No Dep-SSD} 0.81; 0.70-0.94; HR_{No Dep-Dep} 0.58; 0.46-0.73; HR_SSD-Dep 0.66; 0.44-0.98).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Older people may present with heterogeneous depressive trajectories. Targeting the accumulation of somatic diseases and enhancing social interactions may be appropriate for both depression prevention and burden reduction, while promoting physical activity may primarily benefit recovery from depressive disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":9259,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"321-327"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141174459","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}