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MORBIDITY RISK OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
Author(s) -
Newman S. C.,
Bland R. C.,
Orn H.
Publication year - 1988
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.1600-0447.1988.tb08547.x
Subject(s) - psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , depression (economics) , medicine , percentile , statistics , mathematics , economics , macroeconomics
Lifetime morbidity risks and percentiles of the age of onset distribution are given for a series of psychiatric disorders based on data collected as part of a community survey in Edmonton, Canada. The Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) was used to gather information from 3,258 community residents between January 1983 and May 1986. Using a recently developed method of estimating morbidity risks from survey data, the lifetime morbidity risks for depression (male 16.4%, female 22.3%), schizophrenia (male 1.2%, female 1.0%), and other disorders were calculated. These results are consistent with previously published reports.