Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
February 1, 2026
Błażej Misiak, Julian Maciaszek
1 citation
Religiosity manifests in a variety of behaviors and activities that can be divided into intrinsic (IR), extrinsic organizational (EORG), and extrinsic non-organizational religiosity (ENORG). It has been shown that religiosity might be associated with the occurrence of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). However, the understanding of this association might be limited due to a lack of longitudinal...
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
July 1, 2024
Kesheng Wang, Saima Shafique, Nianyang Wang et al.
1 citation
To examine the associations of age when first substance use and early-onset substance use before age 18 with age at onset (AAO) of hypertension. This study included 19,270 individuals with AAO of hypertension from the 2015-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Age when first use of 10 substance use variables included alcohol, daily cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, marijuana,...
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
October 1, 2023
Nicholas L. Bormann, Andrea N Weber, Benjamin Miskle et al.
6 citations
Psychedelics are being explored for their potential therapeutic benefits across a wide range of psychiatric diagnoses and may usher in a new age in psychiatric treatment. There is stigma associated with these currently illegal substances, and use varies by race and age. We hypothesized that minoritized racial and ethnic populations, relative to White respondents, would perceive psychedelic use...
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
July 15, 2017
Stephanie Rek, Bryony Sheaves, Daniel K. Freeman
54 citations
Nightmares are inherently distressing, prevent restorative sleep, and are associated with a number of psychiatric problems, but have rarely been the subject of empirical study. Negative affect, linked to stressful events, is generally considered the key trigger of nightmares; hence nightmares have most often been considered in the context of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, many...
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
June 1, 2015
Matthias Michal, Eva Duven, Sebastian Giralt et al.
Depersonalization (DP) involves unpleasant experiences of detachment from one's sense of self or unreality in the environment. DP may occur in a broad range of conditions, among healthy persons due to sleep loss, drug induced, secondary to anxiety disorders or primary in depersonalization disorder. Although DP has an early age of onset, little is known about the prevalence and correlates of DP...
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
September 1, 2013
Marjolein Van Duijl, Wim Kleijn, Joop De Jong
30 citations
As in many cultures, spirit possession is a common idiom of distress in Uganda. The DSM-IV contains experimental research criteria for dissociative and possession trance disorder (DTD and PTD), which are under review for the DSM-5. In the current proposed categories of the DSM-5, PTD is subsumed under dissociative identity disorder (DID) and DTD under dissociative disorders not elsewhere...