The relationship between childhood trauma and schizophrenia in the Genomics of Schizophrenia in the Xhosa people (SAX) study in South Africa.

CONCLUSION: Childhood trauma is common in this population. Among many other benefits, interventions to prevent childhood trauma may contribute to a decreasing occurrence of schizophrenia.
PMID: 31387660 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Psychological Medicine - August 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Mall S, Platt JM, Temmingh H, Musenge E, Campbell M, Susser E, Stein DJ Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research