Twelve-month mental health service use in six countries of the Americas: A regional report from the World Mental Health Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To provide cross-national data for selected countries of the Americas on service utilization for psychiatric and substance use disorders, the distribution of these services among treatment sectors, treatment adequacy and factors associated with mental health treatment and adequacy of treatment.

Methods

Data come from data collected from 6710 adults with 12 month mental disorder surveys across seven surveys in six countries in North (USA), Central (Mexico) and South (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru) America who were interviewed 2001-2015 as part of the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. DSM-IV diagnoses were made with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Interviews also assessed service utilization by the treatmen

SUBMITTER: Borges G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8061239 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature