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SynthesisEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2020

The cost of mental disorders: a systematic review.

M K Christensen, C C W Lim, S Saha, O Plana-Ripoll, D Cannon, F Presley, N Weye, N C Momen, H A Whiteford, K M Iburg and 1 more

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Synthesis in Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06456775 (Tele-SSM), which is not on this map. Cited by 111 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06456775 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Tele-SSM: A Telephone Technology Innovation in the Intervention on Supported Self-management for Depression in Vietnam

TypeinterventionalSponsorInstitute for Social Development Studies, VietnamRan2021 to 2023Enrolled75ConditionsDepressionArmsTele-SSM
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

111 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Economic analyses of supported employment programmes for people with mental health conditions: A systematic review.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2022
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  10. Excess costs of mental disorders by level of severity.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

M K ChristensenNational Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
C C W LimQueensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
S SahaQueensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Queensland, Australia.
O Plana-RipollNational Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
D CannonQueensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Queensland, Australia.
F PresleyQueensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Queensland, Australia.
N WeyeNational Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
N C MomenNational Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
H A WhitefordQueensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The Park Centre for Mental Health, Queensland, Australia.
K M IburgDepartment of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
J J McGrathNational Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4792-6068

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsTo identify and synthesise the literature on the cost of mental disorders.

methodsSystematic literature searches were conducted in the databases PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, EconLit, NHS York Database and PsychInfo using key terms for cost and mental disorders. Searches were restricted to January 1980-May 2019. The inclusion criteria were: (1) cost-of-illness studies or cost-analyses; (2) diagnosis of at least one mental disorder; (3) study population based on the general population; (4) outcome in monetary units. The systematic review was preregistered on PROSPERO (ID: CRD42019127783).

resultsIn total, 13 579 potential titles and abstracts were screened and 439 full-text articles were evaluated by two independent reviewers. Of these, 112 articles were included from the systematic searches and 31 additional articles from snowball searching, resulting in 143 included articles. Data were available from 48 countries and categorised according to nine mental disorder groups. The quality of the studies varied widely and there was a lack of studies from low- and middle-income countries and for certain types of mental disorders (e.g. intellectual disabilities and eating disorders). Our study showed that certain groups of mental disorders are more costly than others and that these rankings are relatively stable between countries. An interactive data visualisation site can be found here: https://nbepi.com/econ.

conclusionsThis is the first study to provide a comprehensive overview of the cost of mental disorders worldwide.

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Cost of IllnessHealth Care CostsCost-Benefit AnalysisDelivery of Health CareHumansMental Disorderscost-of-illness studieseconomic burdenmental disorderssystematic review

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PMCPMC7443800

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