Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences
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Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci · Jun 2019
Childhood abuse and psychotic experiences - evidence for mediation by adulthood adverse life events.
We have previously reported an association between childhood abuse and psychotic experiences (PEs) in survey data from South East London. Childhood abuse is related to subsequent adulthood adversity, which could form one pathway to PEs. We aimed to investigate evidence of mediation of the association between childhood abuse and PEs by adverse life events. ⋯ The association between childhood abuse and PEs is partly mediated through the experience of adverse life events in adulthood. There is some evidence that a larger proportion of this effect was mediated through violent life events than non-violent life events.