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Oxford University Press, Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 3(37), p. 546-553, 2009

DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbp103

Elsevier, Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health, (2012), p. 353-354

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Reliability and Comparability of Psychosis Patients’ Retrospective Reports of Childhood Abuse

Journal article published in 2009 by Helen L. Fisher, Thomas K. Craig, Paul Fearon, Kevin Morgan, Paola Dazzan, Julia Lappin, Gerard Hutchinson, Gillian A. Doody, Peter B. Jones ORCID, Peter McGuffin, Robin M. Murray, Julian Leff, Craig Morgan, J. C. Ballenger
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Abstract

An increasing number of studies are demonstrating an association between childhood abuse and psychosis. However, the majority of these rely on retrospective self-reports in adulthood that may be unduly influenced by current psychopathology. We therefore set out to explore the reliability and comparability of first-presentation psychosis patients’ reports of childhood abuse. Psychosis case subjects were drawn from the Aetiology and Ethnicity of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses (ÆSOP) epidemiological study and completed the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse Questionnaire to elicit abusive experiences that occurred prior to 16 years of age. High levels of concurrent validity were demonstrated with the Parental Bonding Instrument (antipathy: rs = 0.350–0.737, P