The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS‐R): background and aims

The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) is a new nationally representative community household survey of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the US. The NCS-R was carried out a decade after the original NCS. The NCS-R repeats many of the questions from the NCS and also expands the NCS questioning to include assessments based on the more recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) diagnostics system (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). The NCS-R was designed to (1) investigate time trends and their correlates over the decade of the 1990s and (2) expand the assessment of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders beyond the…

• RW
  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Awards: 044708, Grant 044708
• HU
  Harvard University
• MS
  Michigan State University
• JH
  Johns Hopkins University
• UO
  University of Pittsburgh
• SA
  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• CO
  College of Engineering, Michigan State University
• NI
  National Institute of Mental Health

  Awards: U01-MH60220, MH60220
• NI
  National Institute on Drug Abuse