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Prevalence of mental disorder in an urban population in central Sweden
Author(s) -
Halldin J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1984.tb02525.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , neurosis , population , epidemiology , medicine , medical diagnosis , psychiatric diagnosis , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , pathology , environmental health
– The principal reason for this epidemiological study was the lack of psychiatric morbidity studies in a predominantly urban population, by psychiatrists in direct interviews. The psychiatric examination, covering 1970–71, included a representative selection of 2,283 persons, 18–65 years old from “former” Stockholm County, and the 12‐month prevalence of mental disorders was measured. The total of non‐participants was 12%. Forty‐seven percent had a psychiatric diagnosis ‐ significantly more women (54%) than men (40%). Excluding the psychosomatic diagnoses, 31% of the population received a psychiatric diagnosis, which agrees closely with other contemporary studies of mental disorder in the Nordic countries. The primary diagnoses were: neuroses 26%, psychosomatic diagnoses 16%, schizophrenic/paranoid conditions or other psychoses 0.6%, affective disorders 0.2%, psychoorganic syndromes 1.2%, psychopathy 0.2%, character neurosis 1%, drug dependence 0.2% (as a primary or a secondary diagnosis 0.6%), alcoholism 1.4% (as a primary or a secondary diagnosis 3.1%) and mental retardation 0.4% (as a primary or a secondary diagnosis 0.8%).