Use of Treatment Services and Pharmacotherapy for Bipolar Disorder in a General Population-Based Mental Health Survey

A pilot study for a Quebec Child Mental Health Survey was completed in 1990 with 139 children aged six to 14 years from the general population. Six month prevalence estimates for seven disorders were established using DSM-HI-R criteria alone and in combination with an impairment index related to the diagnoses. Prevalence estimates were studied separately for parents and children. Each age group (six to 11, 12 to 14) was also studied separately. The impairment index, working as a severity scale, lowered prevalence estimates and allowed identification of impairing and non impairing diagnoses. Little overlap was found between informants.

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FC05.01 The association between one-year outcome of major depression and care utilisation in the general population. Findings from The Netherlands mental health survey and incidence study (Nemesis)

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(00)94089-6 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 15 (S2) ◽

pp. 254s-254s

Author(s):

J. Spijker ◽

R.V. Bijl ◽

R. de Graaf ◽

W.A. Nolen

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Major Depression ◽

General Population ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Incidence Study ◽

Health Survey ◽

Care Utilisation ◽

Mental Health Survey ◽

One Year

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São Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey - a population-based epidemiological study of psychiatric morbidity in the São Paulo metropolitan area: aims, design and field implementation

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1590/s1516-44462009000400016 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 375-386 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Maria Carmen Viana ◽

Marlene Galativicis Teixeira ◽

Fidel Beraldi ◽

Indaiá de Santana Bassani ◽

Laura Helena Andrade

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Survey ◽

Psychiatric Morbidity ◽

Composite International Diagnostic Interview ◽

Population Based ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

Diagnostic Interview ◽

São Paulo ◽

The World ◽

Mental Health Survey

The São Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey is a population-based cross-sectional survey of psychiatric morbidity, assessing a probabilistic sample of household residents in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area, aged 18 years and over. Respondents were selected from a stratified multistage clustered area probability sample of households, covering all 39 municipalities, without replacement. Respondents were assessed using the World Mental Health Survey version of the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI), which was translated and adapted into the Brazilian-Portuguese language. Data was collected between May 2005 and April 2007 by trained lay interviewers. The World Mental Health Survey version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview comprises clinical and non-clinical sections, arranged as Part I and Part II, producing diagnoses according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition, and the International Classification of Diseases - 10th Revision. Mood, anxiety, impulse-control and substance use disorders, and suicide-related behavior, considered core disorders, as well as socio-demographic information, were assessed in all respondents. Non-clinical modules and non-core clinical sections (obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, gambling, eating disorders, neurasthenia, pre-menstrual disorders, psychotic symptoms and personality traits) were assessed in a sub-sample (2,942 respondents), composed by all respondents with at least one core disorder and a 25% random sample of those who were non-cases. A total of 5,037 individuals were interviewed, with a global response rate of 81.3%. Saliva samples were collected from 1,801 respondents, with DNA extracted stored pending further investigations.

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