This chapter mainly focuses on the most prevalent mental health disorders among older adults: depressive and anxiety disorders. Their prevalences range from around 2% (for full-blown psychiatric disorders) to 15% (for subclinical forms) in community-dwelling older adults. Although half of affected ...
Today, anxiety disorders are the most common mental health issues in the US, affecting 30% of adults. In 2021, a survey of 8,000 children led by Oxford University Press named anxiety as the Word of the Year. “It’s the word on everyone’s lip, the challenge of the moment,” Dr. ...
social work and sociology, covering such topics as: * the biological basis of common mental disorders * disability and depression in primary care * the limits of mental health care in general medical clinics * improving the management of mental disorders in the elderly * training the whole primar...
The proportion of people living alone has increased in recent years due to population aging, decreasing marriage rates and lowering fertility. Previous studies have investigated the link between living alone and mental disorders but have generally been conducted in elderly populations and are not general...
Did you know that it is amongst the most common mental disorders in the world? Yes, there are 275 million people who suffer from this condition worldwide. 2. Depression When we talk about the most common mental disorders in the world, do you know which condition appears in the first posit...
The objectives of this study are to examine the prevalence of ACEs and the associations of ACEs with common psychiatric disorders among older adults in China. Methods The study used data from the China Mental Health Survey (CMHS), a nationally representative epidemiological survey, which used ...
Hard Times and Common Mental Health Disorders in Developing Countries: Insights from Urban Ghana. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 40, 71-87. doi: 10.1007/s11414-012-9305-zDzator J. Hard times and common mental health disorders in developing countries: insights from urban ...
Common mental disorders and mortality in the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study: comparing the General Health Questionnaire and the Hospital Anxiety and ... MK Hannah,GD Batty,M Benzeval - 《Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health》 被引量: 5发表: 2013年 Common mental disorders and mortality...
The aim of this study is to investigate whether sugar intake from sweet food/beverages is positively associated with the risk of both incident and recurrent mood disorders, and to establish the role of the reverse effect in the Whitehall II cohort, using prospective, repeat measures data collected...