Urbanicity and rates of untreated psychotic disorders in three diverse settings in the Global South.
Tessa RobertsEzra SusserJoni Lee PowCasswina DonaldSujit JohnVijaya RaghavanOlatunde AyindeBola OlleyGeorgina Miguel EspondaJoseph LamRobin M MurrayAlex CohenHelen A WeissGerard HutchinsonRangaswamy TharaOye GurejeJonathan Burnsnull nullCraig MorganPublished in: Psychological medicine (2023)
This study suggests that urbanicity is associated with higher rates of psychotic disorder in some but not all contexts outside of Northern Europe. Future studies should test candidate mechanisms that may underlie the associations observed, such as exposure to violence.