Lifetime Incidence of Treated Mental Health Disorders and Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions and Associated Socioeconomic Functioning.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Few studies have estimated the lifetime incidence of mental health disorders and the association with socioeconomic functioning.

Objective

To investigate whether the lifetime incidence of treated mental health disorders is substantially higher than previously reported and estimate associations with long-term socioeconomic difficulties.

Design, setting, and participants

This nationwide population-based register linkage study includes a randomly selected sample of 1.5 million individuals from the population of Denmark from 1995 to 2018. Data were analyzed from May 2022 to March 2023.

Main outcomes and measures

Lifetime incidence of any treated mental health disorder in the general population was estimated from birth to age 100 years taking into account

SUBMITTER: Kessing LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10339222 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature