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. 2019 Aug 7:10:554.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00554. eCollection 2019.

Izmir Mental Health Cohort for Gene-Environment Interaction in Psychosis (TürkSch): Assessment of the Extended and Transdiagnostic Psychosis Phenotype and Analysis of Attrition in a 6-Year Follow-Up of a Community-Based Sample

Umut Kırlı  1   2 , Tolga Binbay  3 , Hayriye Elbi  4 , Marjan Drukker  2 , Bülent Kayahan  4 , Ferda Özkınay  5 , Hüseyin Onay  5 , Köksal Alptekin  3 , Jim van Os  2   6   7
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Izmir Mental Health Cohort for Gene-Environment Interaction in Psychosis (TürkSch): Assessment of the Extended and Transdiagnostic Psychosis Phenotype and Analysis of Attrition in a 6-Year Follow-Up of a Community-Based Sample

Umut Kırlı et al. Front Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Objective: TürkSch is a prospective, longitudinal study in a representative community sample (İzmir, Turkey), consisting of several data collection stages, to screen and follow-up mental health outcomes, with a special focus on the extended and transdiagnostic psychosis phenotype. The aim of the present paper is to describe the research methodology, data collection results, and associations with noncontact and refusal in the longitudinal arm. Methods: Households were contacted in a multistage clustered probability sampling frame, covering 11 districts and 302 neighborhoods at baseline (n = 4,011) and at 6-year follow-up (n = 2,185). Both at baseline and at follow-up, participants were interviewed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Participants with probable psychotic disorder were reinterviewed with the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (SCID)-I either at the hospital or at the participant's residence. Relevant neighborhood-level measures were assessed in a separate sample (n = 5,124) in addition to individual-level measures. Candidate gene-by-environment interactions were investigated using two nested case-control studies. Results: Individuals with a mental health problem had lower refusal rates. Older and lower educated individuals had a lower probability of noncontact. Discussion: The TürkSch study has an advanced design to meet the challenges of evaluating the multidimensional etiological and phenomenological nature of the extended and transdiagnostic psychosis phenotype.

Keywords: epidemiology; extended psychosis phenotype; gene-environment interactions; neighborhood-level measures; representative community-based sample; transdiagnostic psychosis phenotype.

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Assessment of the extended psychosis phenotype and data collection results at follow-up.
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Dynamic transitions over time in the extended psychosis phenotype.
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