Research summary
Population-scale psychiatric epidemiology forms the throughline of this body of work, with most studies drawing on the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) and the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. A 2005 Archives of General Psychiatry report estimated lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions for DSM-IV disorders using face-to-face interviews with 9,282 US adults conducted between 2001 and 2003 [1]. A companion 2005 paper in the same journal used the NCS-R to estimate 12-month prevalence, severity, and comorbidity across anxiety, mood, impulse-control, and substance use categories [2]. The 2002 Psychological Medicine article introduced the K10 and K6 short screening scales for non-specific psychological distress, developed via Item Response Theory from US national pilot and telephone surveys and validated through clinical reappraisal [3]. A 2003 JAMA paper presented nationally representative NCS-R estimates of major depressive disorder prevalence, correlates, and treatment adequacy across the 48 contiguous states [4]. Earlier, a 1998 JAMA study compared random household telephone surveys conducted in 1991 and 1997 to document a rise in alternative medicine use among US adults, along with cost and physician-disclosure patterns [5]. A 2003 Archives of General Psychiatry article evaluated three serious mental illness screening scales, including the CIDI-SF and K10/K6, for use in the SAMHSA National Household Survey on Drug Abuse [6]. A 2004 methodological overview in the International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research described the WMH version of the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview, detailing its 40 sections covering diagnoses, functioning, treatment, risk factors, sociodemographics, and methodological features [7]. The 1993 New England Journal of Medicine survey of 1,539 adults quantified prevalence, costs, and usage patterns for 16 unconventional therapies not generally taught in US medical schools [8]. Finally, a 2007 Current Opinion in Psychiatry review of WMH data reported that phobias and impulse-control disorders typically onset in childhood, whereas anxiety, mood, and substance disorders cluster later, and that roughly half of lifetime disorders begin before adulthood [9]. Together the studies anchor instruments and prevalence benchmarks widely used in mental health epidemiology.
Recent publications
- Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationDOI
- Prevalence, Severity, and Comorbidity of 12-Month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationDOI
- Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in non-specific psychological distressDOI
- The Epidemiology of Major Depressive DisorderDOI
- Trends in Alternative Medicine Use in the United States, 1990-1997DOI
- Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General PopulationDOI
- The Prevalence and Correlates of Eating Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationDOI
- The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)DOI
- Unconventional Medicine in the United States -- Prevalence, Costs, and Patterns of UseDOI
- Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literatureDOI
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