Abstract
Environmental factors, which may be biological, psychological, societal or spiritual, are important in etiology of mental disorders. Assessment of environmental factors may contribute to prevention and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
A summarizing evaluation of environmental etiological factors using polyenviromic risk/protective scores is an updated approach. We examined polyenviromic risk/protective scores in 146 psychotic, mood or anxiety disorder patients hospitalized in two large university hospitals in the Czech Republic.
Polyenviromic risk/protective scores did not differ significantly between the sample with psychoses/mood disorders versus the group with anxiety disorders. Our results emphasize the need for further research of environmental factors in the etiology of mental disorders in their complexity, similarly to polygenic risk scores.