Assessment of Psychiatric Symptomatology in Bilingual Psychotic Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

摘要: Language plays an important role in psychiatric conditions. disturbances are core symptoms of ailments, and language is the main diagnostic tool to assess psychopathological severity. Although importance psychiatry, effect bilingualism, more specifically using mother or a later acquired at time assessing psychotic symptoms, has been scarcely studied and, thus, remains unclear. We conducted systematic review meta-analysis ascertain whether differences exist severity psychopathology patients when assessed either language. Of 3121 retrieved references from three databases (PsycINFO, MEDLINE, Embase) complementary searches, four studies-including 283 patients-were included review. The meta-analytical combined suggested that overall symptomatology detected clinical assessment rather than (very low quality evidence, random effects model standardized mean difference (SMD) 0.44, 95% CI = 0.19 0.69, p value 0.0006, I2 90%). Considering growing migration flows increasing number bilingual people world population, chosen conduct conducting assessments clinically relevant issue. Based on our findings, we recommend interviews with should be conducted, feasible, patient's