How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment
Psychological Medicine2009Vol. 40(6), pp. 899–909
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Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, April Taylor, Jesse Kokaua, Barry Milne, Guilherme V. Polanczyk, Richie Poulton
Abstract
Prospective longitudinal studies complement retrospective surveys by providing unique information about lifetime prevalence. The experience of at least one episode of DSM-defined disorder during a lifetime may be far more common in the population than previously thought. Research should ask what this means for etiological theory, construct validity of the DSM approach, public perception of stigma, estimates of the burden of disease and public health policy.
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