Psychiatric admissions among the deaf population in Denmark

A systematic review of the incidence of schizophrenia: the distribution of rates and the influence of sex, urbanicity, migrant status and methodology

“…There were 24 migrant studies [31,33,35,121,128-147], 23 cohort studies [9,10,21,23,42,149-165,193] and 14 studies that reported the incidence of schizophrenia in Other Special Groups [166-179]. Key features of these studies can be found in Tables S2, S3 and S4 in Additional File 4.…”

“…In addition, we identified 14 studies that reported the incidence of schizophrenia in the following subgroups of the population: over age 65, twins, various ethnic and/or religious subgroups, the offspring of certain Jewish immigrants, students, deaf individuals, and workers in a radiation contamination zone [166-179]. These studies came from 11 countries: Denmark (n = 2) [166,167], Israel (n = 1) [168], Mauritius (n = 1) [169], New Zealand (n = 1) [170], Norway (n = 1) [171], Romania (n = 1) [172], Russian Federation (n = 1) [173], Sweden (n = 1) [174], USA (n = 1) [179], Ukraine (n = 1) [175], and the United Kingdom (n = 3) [176-178].…”