Cross-cultural Differences in Hallucinations:A Comparison Between Middle Eastern and European Community-Based Samples

BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: While literature indicates that culture modulates phenomenological characteristics of hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, little is known about the extent culture modulates these characteristics in nonclinical samples. STUDY DESIGN: We compared lifetime prevalence, age of onset, and phenomenology of hallucinations as assessed with the Questionnaire for Psychotic Experiences between samples of nonclinical participants used from the Netherlands (N = 2999) and Qatar (N = 2999). While participant recruitment differed between the 2 countries, the samples w... Mehr ...