Examining selection bias in a population-based cohort study of 522 children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and controls: The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study VIA 7.
Mette Falkenberg KrantzCarsten HjorthøjDitte EllersgaardNicoline HemagerCamilla ChristianiKatrine Søborg SpangBirgitte Klee BurtonMaja GregersenAnne SøndergaardAja GreveJessica OhlandPreben Bo MortensenKerstin Jessica PlessenVibeke BlikstedJens Richardt Møllegaard JepsenAnne A E ThorupOle MorsMerete NordentoftPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2022)
Familial high-risk families have multiple socio-economic and health disadvantages. In The VIA 7 Study, although comparable regarding mental illness severity after their child's birth, socioeconomic and health disadvantages are more profound amongst non-participants than amongst participants.