Uncertainty in the association between socio-demographic characteristics and mental health.

ABSTRACT: Questionnaires are among the most basic and widespread tools to assess the mental health of a population in epidemiological and public health studies. Their most obvious advantage (firsthand self-report) is also the source of their main problems: the raw data requires interpretation, and are a snapshot of the specific sample's status at a given time. Efforts to deal with both issues created a bi-dimensional space defined by two orthogonal axes, in which most of the quantitative mental health research can be located. Methods aimed to assure that mental health diagnoses are solidly grounded on existing raw data are part of the individual validity axis. Tools allowing the generalization of the results across the entire population compose the collective validity axis. This paper raises a diffe

SUBMITTER: Rybnikova N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10664908 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature