Common mental disorders among Indigenous people living in regional, remote and metropolitan Australia: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine, using face-to-face diagnostic interviews, the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD) in a cohort of adult Indigenous Australians, the cultural acceptability of the interviews, the rates of comorbid CMD and concordance with psychiatrists' diagnoses.

Design

Cross-sectional study July 2014-November 2016. Psychologists conducted Structured Clinical Interviews for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) (n=544). Psychiatrists interviewed a subsample (n=78).

Setting

Four Aboriginal Medical Services and the general community located in urban, regional and remote areas of Southern Queensland and two Aboriginal Reserves located in New South Wales.

Participants

Indigenous

SUBMITTER: Nasir BF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042557 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature