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. 2019 Nov 27;19:370. doi: 10.1186/s12888-019-2361-7

Table 1.

Distribution of studies on psychosis in people living with homeless included in qualitative and quantitative analysis based on year, study design, sample size, instrument, country, response rate, study population and prevalence

Author (year) (reference number) Sample size Tool Country Outcome (magnitude of psychosis)
(Susser et al., 1989) [37] 223 DSM USA 8%(n = 18) schizophrenia
(Munoz et al., 1998) [38]

Madrid = 262

1563 = USA

CIDI Spain & USA

Madrid; 2.4%(n = 6)

Los Angeles

5.5%(n = 86) Schizophrenia

(Bassuk et al., 1986) [39] 80 DSM USA 3%(n = 2) Schizophrenia
(Koegel et al., 1988) [40] 328 DSM USA

13.7%(n = 45) Schizophrenia / schizophreniform

13.1%(n = 44) schizophrenia

0.6%(n = 2) schizophreniform

(Fichter and Quadflieg, 2001) [20] 265 DSMIII Germany

9.8%(n = 26) psychosis

4.4%(n = 12) schizophrenia

(Längle et al., 2005) [41] 99 ICD and DSM Germany 11%(n = 7) Psychosis disorders
(Connolly et al., 2008) [42] 60 DSM-IV USA

20%(n = 12) psychosis

10%(n = 6) schizophrenia

5%(n = 3) schizoaffective

5%(n = 3) psychosis NOS

(Ghose et al., 2013) [43] 2898 ICD USA 3.5%(n = 98) Schizophrenia
(Tsai et al., 2014) [44] 29,143 DSM USA 9.3%(n = 2707) Psychosis
(Noe et al., 2016) [45] 497 DSM Canada N = 263 (53%) Psychosis
(Sarajlija et al., 2014) [46] 104 ICD Serbia

35.6% psychosis (n = 37)

N = 11 (10.6%) Schizophrenia

(Ayano et al., 2017) [7] 456 SCID) Ethiopia

Schizophrenia

N = 274 (60.09%)

Psychotic disorders NOS

N = 45 (9.87%)

(Schinka et al., 2012) [47] 10,111 DSM USA

Schizophrenia = 432 (4.27%)

Other psychosis = 420 (4.15%)

(Topolovec-Vranic et al., 2017) [48] 2088 MINI Canada 35%(N = 731) Psychosis
(Fletcher and Reback, 2017) [49] 131 SCID USA 22%%(n = 29) Psychosis
(Cuvee.Adams et al., 1996) [50] 64 DSM UK 42%(n = 27) Schizophrenia
(Fekadu1 et al., 2014) [51] 217 CANSAS Ethiopia

41%(n = 89) Psychosis

Schizophrenia (n = 79)

(Okamura et al., 2014) [52] 346 WHO-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5-J) Japan 8.1%(n = 28) Schizophrenia
(Prinsloo et al., 2012) [53] 38 DSM Ireland 5.3%(n = 2) Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
(Kovess and Lazarus, 1999) [22] 715 CIDI France 5.8%(n = 42) schizophrenic/delusional disorders (certain)
(Larney et al., 2009) [54] 105 Lifetime (report) Australia 37.1%(n = 39) schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder.
(Fischer et al., 1986) [55] 51 DSM-III USA 2%(n = 1) schizophrenia
(Greifenhagen et.al. 1997) [21] 32 DSM-III Germen

Schizophrenic disorders n = 11 (34%)

Schizophrenia n = 8 (25%)

Schizophreniform disorder n = 3((%)

(Newton et al., 9194) [56] 65 DSM Scotland 3%(n = 2) schizophrenia
(Bacciardi et al., 2017) [57] 416 MINI Canada 26%(n = 94) Schizophrenia
(Goldstein et al., 2012) [58] 3595 DSM $ ICD USA 17.6%(n = 631) schizophrenia
(Freeman et al., 1979) [59] 250 Present State Examination (PSE) Canada 4.4%(n = 11) schizophrenia
(Bassuk et al., 1984) [60] 78 DSM USA 29.5%(n = 23) Schizophrenia
(Geddes et al., 1994) [61]

79 in 1966

136 in 1992

DSM Scotland

25%(n = 20) in 1966

9%(n = 12) in 1992 Schizophrenia

Cougnard et.al. 2006 [62] 104 ICD France 32.7% (n = 34) psychosis
Yim et.al 2015 [63] 79 SCID China

Psychotic disorder 10.1% (n = 8)

Schizophrenia (n = 3)

Schizoaffective (n = 1)

Psychotic NOS (n = 4)