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Psychiatric Epidemiology [PDF]

, 2023
The discipline of psychiatric epidemiology is, at its most basic level, the study of the patterns of mental disorders. Recently, the scope of the field has greatly expanded and now includes detailed examinations of the natural history of mental disorders, risk factors for the development and persistence of mental disorders, the relationships between ...
de Vries, Ymkje, Bos, Elisabeth H., Roest, A. M., de Jonge, Peter   +3 more
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Design and field procedures for the clinical reappraisal of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview version 3.3 in Qatar's national mental health study

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2023
Background The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) has been clinically reappraised in several studies conducted mainly in the US and Europe.
Iman Amro, Amal Ali, Mohamed H. M. O. Hassan, Mahmoud AlShawwaf, Ahmed Alhassan, Dalia AlBahari, Hana ElFakki, Zainab Hijawi, Sheeren Aly, Asmaa Amin, Rumaisa Mohammed, Marwa Nofal, Menatalla Abdelkader, Salma Salman, James Currie, Majid Alabdulla, Nancy A. Sampson, Michael First, Ronald C. Kessler, Peter W. Woodruff, Salma M. Khaled   +20 more
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Psychiatric disorders among adolescents from Lebanon: prevalence, correlates, and treatment gap [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose: Adolescence is a critical age for the development of psychiatric disorders. Although Lebanon, a low-to-middle income country, has suffered from decades of war and political instability, the burden of psychiatric disorders among adolescents in ...
Ghandour, Lilian A., Maalouf, Fadi T., Halabi, Fadi, Shehab, Al Amira Safa, Tavitian-Elmadjian, Lucy R., Zeinoun, Pia   +5 more
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Healthcare utilization and psychiatric morbidity in violent offenders [Elektronisk resurs] : findings from a prospective cohort study

, 2023
Purpose: Although persistent offenders with histories of imprisonment and violence have disproportionate high rates of psychiatric disorders, little is known of their psychiatric healthcare utilization (HCU) and HCU-associated factors.
Hofvander, Björn,, Wallinius, Märta,, Björk, Jonas,, Tärnhäll, André,, Billstedt, Eva,, Lund University., Gustafsson, Peik,   +6 more
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School performance and hospital admission due to unipolar depression: a three-generational study of social causation and social selection. [PDF]

, 2012
PURPOSE: Both "social causation" and "social selection" offer plausible explanations for an association between education and mental health. We aimed to explore these processes in unipolar depression, with a specific focus on school performance and ...
Goodman, Anna, von Knorring, L., von Knorring, Lars, von Knorring, Anne-Liis, Goodman, Anna,, von Knorring, Lars,, Jonsson, Ulf, von Knorring, Anne-Liis,, Koupil, Ilona,, Koupil, Ilona, Jonsson, Ulf,   +10 more
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Psychiatrization of Society: A Conceptual Framework and Call for Transdisciplinary Research

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Purpose: Worldwide, there have been consistently high or even rising incidences of diagnosed mental disorders and increasing mental healthcare service utilization over the last decades, causing a growing burden for healthcare systems and societies. While
Timo Beeker, China Mills, Dinesh Bhugra, Sanne te Meerman, Samuel Thoma, Martin Heinze, Sebastian von Peter   +6 more
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Use of GIS Mapping as a Public Health Tool–-From Cholera to Cancer

Health Services Insights, 2013
The field of medical geographic information systems (Medical GIS) has become extremely useful in understanding the bigger picture of public health. The discipline holds a substantial capacity to understand not only differences, but also similarities in ...
George J. Musa, Po-Huang Chiang, Tyler Sylk, Rachel Bavley, William Keating, Bereketab Lakew, Hui-Chen Tsou, Christina W. Hoven   +7 more
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Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents in Lebanon Study (PALS): a national household survey [PDF]

, 2022
Introduction: Psychiatric disorders are among the leading causes of disability in children and adolescents globally. In Lebanon, a country that has endured a prolonged history of conflict and economic and political uncertainty, mental health surveys in ...
Alrojolah, Loay, Akoury-Dirani, Leyla, Ghandour, Lilian A., Maalouf, Fadi T., El Bejjani, Martine, Barakat, Marc, Shamseddeen, Wael A., Brent, David A.   +7 more
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Psychiatric diagnoses in older people with intellectual disability in comparison with the general population a register study [Elektronisk resurs] [PDF]

, 2018
AIMS: To describe the occurrence of psychiatric diagnoses in a specialist care setting in older people with intellectual disability (ID) in relation to those found in the same age group in the general population.
Nylander, L,, Axmon, A,, Ahlström, G,, Lund University., Björne, P,   +4 more
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Did female prisoners with mental disorders receive psychiatric treatment before imprisonment? [PDF]

, 2015
© 2015 Mundt et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Mundt, AP, Mir, J, Adrian P Mundt, Priebe, S, Stefan Priebe, Jan Mir, Kastner, S, Sinja Kastner   +7 more
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