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A longitudinal investigation of childhood communication ability and adolescent psychotic experiences in a community sample
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Sullivan, Sarah A., Hollen, Linda, Wren, Yvonne, Thompson, Andrew D., Lewis, Glyn and Zammit, Stan (2016) A longitudinal investigation of childhood communication ability and adolescent psychotic experiences in a community sample. Schizophrenia Research, 173 (1-2). pp. 54-61. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2016.03.005 ISSN 0920-9964.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2016.03.005
Abstract
Background:
Some childhood speech and language impairments precede psychosis but it is not clear whether they also precede adolescent psychotic experiences and whether this association is specific to psychotic experiences.
Methods:
Pragmatic language and expressive speech and language (parent-assessed using the Children's Communication Checklist) at age 9 and psychotic experiences and depression at ages 12 and 18 were investigated in 7659 participants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Associations were investigated using multivariate modelling.
Results:
Poorer pragmatic language at 9 years was associated with psychotic experiences at both ages (12 years OR 1.22, 95% CI 1.11, 1.34; 18 years OR 1.25, 95% CI 1.10, 1.41) but only with depression at 18 years (OR 1.10, 95% CI 1.00, 1.22). Poorer expressive speech and language ability was not associated with psychotic experiences or depression at either age. There was evidence that pragmatic language was specifically associated with psychotic experiences at age 12 but no evidence that the strength of any of the associations changed over time.
Conclusions:
Deficits in pragmatic language precede early and late adolescent psychotic experiences and early adolescent depression. Interventions aimed at helping children improve pragmatic language skills may reduce the incidence of adolescent psychopathology and associated psychological disorder and dysfunction later in life.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Pragmatics, Psychoses in children, Children -- Language, Depression in adolescence | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Schizophrenia Research | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0920-9964 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | May 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 173 | ||||||||||
Number: | 1-2 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 7 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 54-61 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.schres.2016.03.005 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Funder: | Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC), Wellcome Trust (London, England), University of Bristol | ||||||||||
Grant number: | 102215/2/13/2 (WT), 092731 (WT) | ||||||||||
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