Association between air pollution exposure and mental health service use among individuals with first presentations of psychotic and mood disorders: retrospective cohort study

Joanne B. Newbury, Robert Stewart, Helen L. Fisher, Sean Beevers, David Dajnak, Matthew Broadbent, Megan Pritchard, Narushige Shiode, Margaret Heslin, Ryan Hammoud, Matthew Hotopf, Stephani L. Hatch, Ian S. Mudway, Ioannis Bakolis

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)678-685
    JournalBritish Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume219
    Issue number6
    Early online date19 Aug 2021
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021

    Bibliographical note

    Note: J.B.N. is supported by a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (218632/Z/19/Z) and was also supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship (ES/S011196/1) from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and an Early Career Bridging and Career Development Grant (IS-BRC-1215-20018) from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) during the course of this research. This study therefore represents independent research part funded by the NIHR Maudsley BRC at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London. I.B., M.H. and S.L.H. are supported by the NIHR Maudsley BRC and I.B. and R.S. are supported by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care South London at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London. This work was further supported by the UK Medical Research Council via the MRC Centre for Environment and Health. H.L.F., S.L.H. and N.S. are supported by the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health at King's College London (ES/S012567/1). I.S.M.'s involvement in this study was part funded by the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Exposures and Health, a partnership between Public Health England and Imperial College London. M.H. is supported by multiple grants from NIHR. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the ESRC, King's College London, the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

    Keywords

    • Psychiatry, neuroscience and clinical psychology

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