"Psychotic disorders" refers to a group of mental health conditions in which a person experiences a break from reality. This can cause hallucinations, delusions, and difficulty thinking and communicating. Full definition
Areas of Expertise: Mental health, social determinants of health and health services use, risk of psychotic disorder in refugee and immigrant populations (mediarelations.uwo.ca)
A prior study using the parallel CECA questionnaire [24] reported that maternal antipathy was approximately twice as common among individuals with psychotic disorder as compared with controls [25]. (journals.plos.org)
Next, to determine whether risk of non-affective psychotic disorder in refugees relative to migrants differed by region of origin, we fitted a Cox regression model to a subset of the cohort, excluding the Swedish - born group who did not contribute information to these analyses. (bmj.com)