Substance dependence among those without symptoms of substance abuse in the World Mental Health Survey.

ABSTRACT: The World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative uses the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). The first 13 surveys only assessed substance dependence among respondents with a history of substance abuse; later surveys also assessed substance dependence without symptoms of abuse. We compared results across the two sets of surveys to assess implications of the revised logic and develop an imputation model for missing values of lifetime dependence in the earlier surveys. Lifetime dependence without symptoms of abuse was low in the second set of surveys (0.3% alcohol, 0.2% drugs). Regression-based imputation models were built in random half-samples of the new surveys and validated in the other half. There were minimal differences for imputed and a

SUBMITTER: Lago L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5664943 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature