Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information on the frequency and timing of mental disorder onsets across the lifespan is of fundamental importance for public health planning. Broad, cross-national estimates of this information from coordinated general population surveys were last updated in 2007. We aimed to provide updated and improved estimates of age-of-onset distributions, lifetime prevalence, and morbid risk.

Methods

In this cross-national analysis, we analysed data from respondents aged 18 years or older to the World Mental Health surveys, a coordinated series of cross-sectional, face-to-face community epidemiological surveys administered between 2001 and 2022. In the surveys, the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview, a fully structured psychiatric diagnostic interview, was use

SUBMITTER: McGrath JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10529120 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature