Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

Kessler, Ronald C.; Angermeyer, Matthias C.; Anthony, James C.; Graaf, Ron de; Demyttenaere, Koen; Gasquet, I.; Girolamo, Giovanni de; Gluzman, Semyon; Gureje, Oye; Haro, Josep María; Kawakami, Norito; Karam, Aimée; Levinson, Daphna; Mora, María Elena Medina; Browne, Mark A. Oakley; Posada‐Villa, José; Stein, Dan J.; Tsang, Cheuk Him Adley; Aguilar‐Gaxiola, Sergio; Alonso, Jordi; Lee, Sing; Heeringa, Steven G.; Pennell, Beth‐Ellen; Berglund, Patricia A.; Gruber, Michael J.; Petukhova, Maria; Chatterji, Somnath; Üstün, T. B.

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Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

RCRonald C. Kessler MCMatthias C. Angermeyer JCJames C. Anthony RDRon de Graaf KDKoen Demyttenaere

Harvard University

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Data are presented on the lifetime prevalence, projected lifetime risk, and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. Face-to-face community surveys were conducted in seventeen countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. The combined numbers of respondents were 85,052. Lifetime prevalence, projected lifetime risk, and age of onset of DSM-IV disorders were assessed with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), a fully-structured lay administered diagnostic interview. Survival analysis was used to estimate lifetime risk. Median and inter-quartile range (IQR) of age of onset is very early…

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Medicine
Anxiety
Mental health
CIDI
Psychiatry
Mood disorders
Mood
Prevalence of mental disorders

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