title: Psychotic disorders are more common in ethnic minority than in Dutch native defendants.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The prevalence of psychotic disorders among prisoners from racial or ethnic minority groups remains uncertain. We therefore compared the frequency of psychotic disorder in ethnic minority and Dutch native defendants using the nationwide database of elaborate pre-trial reports.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analysis of a nationwide database of pre-trial reported defendants in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2006 (n = 12,752).
  
  
  RESULTS
  A diagnosis of a psychotic disorder was more common in ethnic minority than in Dutch native defendants (21.1 vs. 10.2%). The odds ratio of this diagnosis, adjusted for age, gender, IQ below 85 and abuse of cannabis or hard drugs, was 2.6 (95% CI 2.2-3.0). This odds ratio was highest for African defendants (OR = 5.2; 95% CI 3.7-7.4).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychotic disorders were more common among pre-trial reported defendants from ethnic minorities than among their Dutch native counterparts.
authors.affiliation: Netherlands Institute for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Noordsingel 113, 3035 EM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. info@vinkers-psychiater.nl
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Vinkers
authors.forename: Jean-Paul
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Selten
authors.forename: Hans W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Hoek
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rinne
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003415:Crime / Q000208:ethnology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D016017:Odds Ratio; D015995:Prevalence; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult
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