TY - JOUR
T1 - Examining selection bias in a population-based cohort study of 522 children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and controls
T2 - The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study VIA 7
AU - Krantz, Mette Falkenberg
AU - Hjorthøj, Carsten
AU - Ellersgaard, Ditte
AU - Hemager, Nicoline
AU - Christiani, Camilla
AU - Spang, Katrine Søborg
AU - Burton, Birgitte Klee
AU - Gregersen, Maja
AU - Søndergaard, Anne
AU - Greve, Aja
AU - Ohland, Jessica
AU - Mortensen, Preben Bo
AU - Plessen, Kerstin Jessica
AU - Bliksted, Vibeke
AU - Jepsen, Jens Richardt Møllegaard
AU - Thorup, Anne A E
AU - Mors, Ole
AU - Nordentoft, Merete
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - PURPOSE: Knowledge about representativity of familial high-risk studies of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is essential to generalize study conclusions. The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study (VIA 7), a population-based case-control familial high-risk study, creates a unique opportunity for combining assessment and register data to examine cohort representativity.METHODS: Through national registers, we identified the population of 11,959 children of parents with schizophrenia (FHR-SZ) or bipolar disorder (FHR-BP) and controls from which the 522 children participating in The VIA 7 Study (202 FHR-SZ, 120 FHR-BP and 200 controls) were selected. Socio-economic and health data were obtained to compare high-risk groups and controls, and participants versus non-participants. Selection bias impact on results was analyzed through inverse probability weights.RESULTS: In the total sample of 11,959 children, FHR-SZ and FHR-BP children had more socio-economic and health disadvantages than controls (p < 0.001 for most). VIA 7 non-participants had a poorer function, e.g. more paternal somatic and mental illness (p = 0.02 and p = 0.04 for FHR-SZ), notifications of concern (FHR-BP and PBC p < 0.001), placements out of home (p = 0.03 for FHR-SZ), and lower level of education (p ≤ 0.01 for maternal FHR-SZ and FHR-BP, p = 0.001 for paternal FHR-BP). Inverse probability weighted analyses of results generated from the VIA Study showed minor changes in study findings after adjustment for the found selection bias.CONCLUSIONS: Familial high-risk families have multiple socio-economic and health disadvantages. In The VIA 7 Study, although comparable regarding mental illness severity after their child's birth, socioeconomic and health disadvantages are more profound amongst non-participants than amongst participants.
AB - PURPOSE: Knowledge about representativity of familial high-risk studies of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is essential to generalize study conclusions. The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study (VIA 7), a population-based case-control familial high-risk study, creates a unique opportunity for combining assessment and register data to examine cohort representativity.METHODS: Through national registers, we identified the population of 11,959 children of parents with schizophrenia (FHR-SZ) or bipolar disorder (FHR-BP) and controls from which the 522 children participating in The VIA 7 Study (202 FHR-SZ, 120 FHR-BP and 200 controls) were selected. Socio-economic and health data were obtained to compare high-risk groups and controls, and participants versus non-participants. Selection bias impact on results was analyzed through inverse probability weights.RESULTS: In the total sample of 11,959 children, FHR-SZ and FHR-BP children had more socio-economic and health disadvantages than controls (p < 0.001 for most). VIA 7 non-participants had a poorer function, e.g. more paternal somatic and mental illness (p = 0.02 and p = 0.04 for FHR-SZ), notifications of concern (FHR-BP and PBC p < 0.001), placements out of home (p = 0.03 for FHR-SZ), and lower level of education (p ≤ 0.01 for maternal FHR-SZ and FHR-BP, p = 0.001 for paternal FHR-BP). Inverse probability weighted analyses of results generated from the VIA Study showed minor changes in study findings after adjustment for the found selection bias.CONCLUSIONS: Familial high-risk families have multiple socio-economic and health disadvantages. In The VIA 7 Study, although comparable regarding mental illness severity after their child's birth, socioeconomic and health disadvantages are more profound amongst non-participants than amongst participants.
KW - Familial high-risk
KW - Generalizability
KW - Representativity
KW - Severe parental mental illness
KW - Socio-economy
U2 - 10.1007/s00127-022-02338-3
DO - 10.1007/s00127-022-02338-3
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36087138
SN - 0933-7954
VL - 58
SP - 113
EP - 140
JO - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
JF - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
IS - 1
ER -