Internalizing psychopathology and all-cause mortality: A comparison of transdiagnostic vs. diagnosis-based risk prediction


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Hyunsik Kim, Nicholas A. Turiano, Miriam K. Forbes, Roman Kotov, Robert F. Krueger, Nicholas R. Eaton and
World Psychiatry, vol. 20(2), Wiley, 2021 May, pp. 276-282


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Kim, H., Turiano, N. A., Forbes, M. K., Kotov, R., Krueger, R. F., & and, N. R. E. (2021). Internalizing psychopathology and all-cause mortality: A comparison of transdiagnostic vs. diagnosis-based risk prediction. World Psychiatry, 20(2), 276–282. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20859


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Kim, Hyunsik, Nicholas A. Turiano, Miriam K. Forbes, Roman Kotov, Robert F. Krueger, and Nicholas R. Eaton and. “Internalizing Psychopathology and All-Cause Mortality: A Comparison of Transdiagnostic vs. Diagnosis-Based Risk Prediction.” World Psychiatry 20, no. 2 (May 2021): 276–282.


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Kim, Hyunsik, et al. “Internalizing Psychopathology and All-Cause Mortality: A Comparison of Transdiagnostic vs. Diagnosis-Based Risk Prediction.” World Psychiatry, vol. 20, no. 2, Wiley, May 2021, pp. 276–82, doi:10.1002/wps.20859.


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@article{kim2021a,
  title = {Internalizing psychopathology and all-cause mortality: A comparison of transdiagnostic vs. diagnosis-based risk prediction},
  year = {2021},
  month = may,
  issue = {2},
  journal = {World Psychiatry},
  pages = {276-282},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  volume = {20},
  doi = {10.1002/wps.20859},
  author = {Kim, Hyunsik and Turiano, Nicholas A. and Forbes, Miriam K. and Kotov, Roman and Krueger, Robert F. and and, Nicholas R. Eaton},
  month_numeric = {5}
}

Abstract

Previous studies have documented the utility of a transdiagnostic internalizing factor in predicting important future outcomes (e.g., subsequent mental disorder diagnoses). To date, however, no study has investigated whether an internalizing factor predicts mortality risk. Also, while pre­vious studies of mortality risk have emphasized its associations with particular internalizing disorders, no study has assessed how the transdiagnostic internalizing factor vs. disorder-specific variance differently predict that risk. The primary aims of this study were to explore: a) whether the internalizing factor predicts mortality risk, b) whether particular internalizing psychopathologies uniquely predict mortality risk over and beyond the transdiagnostic internalizing factor, and c) whether there is a significant interaction of internalizing with self-reported health in the prediction of mortality risk. We utilized a large national sample of American adults from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), a longitudinal study that examined midlife development of individuals across multiple waves between 1995 and 2015. Data were analyzed for the 6,329 participants who completed the phone interview and self-administered questionnaire in MIDUS 1 (1995-1996) and were then followed up until October 31, 2015 or until death. To investigate the association between internalizing and mortality risk, we used the semi-parametric proportional hazards Cox model, where survival time was regressed on a latent internalizing factor. Overall findings indicate that a transdiagnostic internalizing factor significantly predicts mortality risk over a 20-year period (hazard ratio, HR=1.12, 95% CI: 1.05-1.16, p<0.01) and that internalizing outperforms disorder-specific variance (e.g., depression-specific variance) in the prediction of that risk. Further, there was a significant interaction between transdiagnostic internalizing and self-reported health, whereby internalizing psychopathology had a specific association with early death for individuals with excellent self-reported health condition (HR=1.50, 95% CI: 1.17-1.84, p<0.05). This highlights the clinical utility of using the transdiagnostic internalizing factor for prediction of an important future outcome, and supports the argument that internalizing psychopathology can be a meaningful liability to explore in public health practice.


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