Research summary
World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys epidemiology, plus the Global Burden of Disease 2013 injuries estimate, organise this corpus. The lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset paper compiled face-to-face data from 85,052 respondents in 17 countries (Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East) using the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and reported lifetime prevalence, projected lifetime risk, and median/inter-quartile range of age of onset for DSM-IV disorders via survival analysis [1]. The WMH International College Student Project surveyed 19 colleges across 8 countries (Australia, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, United States) to estimate prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of common mental disorders among first-year college students using web-based self-report questionnaires [2]. A traumatic-event-exposure paper analysed general-population surveys in 24 countries (combined n = 68,894 adults) covering 29 trauma types, with cross-tabulations of prevalence and exploratory factor analysis of traumatic-event types [4]. The PTSD WMH paper analysed 26 surveys (71,083 respondents aged 18+), using the CIDI to assess trauma exposure and 30-day, 12-month, and lifetime PTSD as well as past-year treatment, with age-of-onset distributions stratified by country income [5]. The Trauma and PTSD review consolidates WMH findings on the unequal distribution of trauma exposure, the variable PTSD risk across trauma types, and the observation that PTSD often persists longer than previously recognised even though a substantial minority of cases remits within months [3]. The barriers-to-treatment analysis used data from 24 countries (subsample n = 63,678) to examine reasons for not initiating or continuing mental-health treatment by severity, finding low perceived need as the most common reason for non-initiation, particularly for moderate or mild cases [6]. The Global Burden of Injury paper applied the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) framework with the GBD mortality database and the cause-of-death ensemble modelling tool to estimate incidence, mortality, and DALYs for 26 causes of injury globally and by region and country between 1990 and 2013 [7].
Recent publications
- The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable developmentDOI
- The epidemiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationDOI
- Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.
- WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and distribution of mental disorders.DOI
- Grand challenges in global mental healthDOI
- Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health SurveysDOI
- The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the World Mental Health Survey ConsortiumDOI
- Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health SurveysDOI
- Barriers to mental health treatment: results from the WHO World Mental Health surveysDOI
- The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013DOI
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