ArticleThe British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science2008
Disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders across the world.
Article in The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06783842 (Perioperative Depression, an Observational Cohort Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 141 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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141 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 389 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Impact of COVID-19 first wave on the mental health of healthcare workers in a Front-Line Spanish Tertiary Hospital: lessons learned.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Transdiagnostic Predictors of Everyday Functioning: Examining the Relationships of Depression and Reinforcement Learning.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Risk factors for new antidepressant use after surgery in Sweden: a nationwide, observational cohort study.BJA open · 2023Article
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- Childhood adversities and mental disorders in first-year college students: results from the World Mental Health International College Student Initiative.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Recurrence of anxiety disorders and its predictors in the general population.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdvocates of expanded mental health treatment assert that mental disorders are as disabling as physical disorders, but little evidence supports this assertion.
aimsTo establish the disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders in high-income and low- and middle-income countries.
methodCommunity epidemiological surveys were administered in 15 countries through the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative.
resultsRespondents in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries attributed higher disability to mental disorders than to the commonly occurring physical disorders included in the surveys. This pattern held for all disorders and also for treated disorders. Disaggregation showed that the higher disability of mental than physical disorders was limited to disability in social and personal role functioning, whereas disability in productive role functioning was generally comparable for mental and physical disorders.
conclusionsDespite often higher disability, mental disorders are under-treated compared with physical disorders in both high-income and in low- and middle-income countries.
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