The paper presents an overview of the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative and summarizes recent WMH results regarding the prevalence and societal costs of mental disorders. The WMH surveys are representative community surveys that were carried out in 28 countries throughout the world aime...
This paper presents an overview of the World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and a discussion of the methodological research on which the development of the instrument was based. The WMH-CIDI ...
Kessler RCÜstün TBeds The WHO World Mental Health Surveys: Global Perspectives on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders New York, NY Cambridge University Press2008;14- 32Google Scholar 33. Kessler RCUstün TB The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative Version of the World Health ...
Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys describes such data from the first 17 countries participating in the World Health Organization's (WHO's) World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. Hous... D Louisa,C Wai...
We also conduct the first-ever analyses of the influence of cohort effects on individuals’ drug use cross-nationally using the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys (https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh/),26 a unique database made up of 27 population surveys ...
World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys in 21 countries.MethodNationally or regionally representative surveys of 51 945 adults assessed childhood adversities and lifetime DSM–IV disorders with the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI).ResultsChildhood adversities were highly prevalent and ...
The current report presents data of this sort from the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) surveys (www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ WMH). The WMH initiative was launched by the WHO to carry out general population surveys in countries throughout the world to assess the ...
Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO world mental health surveys. PLoS Med. 2009;6:e1000123. Article Google Scholar Ten Have M, Van Dorsselaer S, De Graaf R. Prevalence and risk factors for first onset of suicidal ...
We previously reported on the cross-national epidemiology of ADHD from the first 10 countries in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. The current report expands those previous findings to the 20 nationally or regionally representative WMH surveys that have now collected data on adult ADHD. ...
An opportunity to do this is presented by the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys,22 a series of representative community surveys currently underway in 30 countries around the world with a combined sample of more than 200 000 respondents. The K10/K6 scales and the WHO-DAS are included in...