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SynthesisScientific reports2018

Prevalence of Depression in the Community from 30 Countries between 1994 and 2014.

Grace Y Lim, Wilson W Tam, Yanxia Lu, Cyrus S Ho, Melvyn W Zhang, Roger C Ho

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Synthesis in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 753 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Grace Y LimMonash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Wilson W TamAlice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-0641-3060
Yanxia LuDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. A0068932@u.nus.edu.
Cyrus S HoDepartment of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Melvyn W ZhangNational Addiction Management Service, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore.
Roger C HoDepartment of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of depression may be affected by changes in psychiatric practices and the availability of online mental health information in the past two decades. This study aimed to evaluate the aggregate prevalence of depression in communities from different countries between 1994 and 2014 and to explore the variations in prevalence stratified by geographical, methodological and socio-economic factors. A total of 90 studies were identified and met the inclusion criteria (n = 1,112,573 adults) with 68 studies on single point prevalence, 9 studies on one-year prevalence, and 13 studies on lifetime prevalence of depression. A random-effects model meta-analysis that was performed to calculate the aggregate point, one-year and lifetime prevalence of depression calculated prevalences of 12.9%, 7.2% and 10.8% respectively. Point prevalence of depression was significantly higher in women (14.4%), countries with a medium human development index (HDI) (29.2%), studies published from 2004 to 2014 (15.4%) and when using self-reporting instruments (17.3%) to assess depression. Heterogeneity was identified by meta-regression and subgroup analysis, and response rate, percentage of women and year of publication, respectively, were determined contribute to depression prevalence. This meta-analysis allows benchmarking of the prevalence of depression during the era when online health information emerged, facilitating future comparisons.

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