PMID- 20813218
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110126
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 0013-7006 (Print)
IS  - 0013-7006 (Linking)
VI  - 36
IP  - 3 Suppl
DP  - 2010
TI  - ["Mental Health in the General Population: images and realities (MHGP)": 
      methodology of the study].
PG  - 1-6
LID - 10.1016/S0013-7006(10)70011-7 [doi]
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Mental Health is a Public Health issue, however, access to relevant 
      treatment often does not meet the population needs. Patients, their relatives, as 
      well as Mental Health professionals are still victims of a high stigmatization 
      process. Whatever the countries and the cultural settings, public beliefs and 
      attitudes towards mental illness (insanity) and mentally ills (insane people) 
      play a major role in the ranking of priorities given to Mental Health national 
      prevention and care policies. This paper presents the methodology of the 
      research-action entitled "Mental Health in General Population: images and 
      realities (MHGP)" carried out by the World Health Organisation Collaborative 
      Centre (Lille, France) and the Direction of research, studies, assessment and 
      statistics (Drees) of the French Ministry of Health, in a sample of 36 000 French 
      subjects over 18 years old, between 1999 and 2003. OBJECTIVES: The MHGP Survey is 
      an international multisite study aimed at: Describing, in the general population, 
      the representations attached to insanity, mental illness and depression, and the 
      related care; Assessing the prevalence of major psychiatric disorders in the 
      general population; Rising awareness about Mental Health issues among various 
      social groups: social workers, local elected, care professionals, by including 
      them in the research-action procedure; Promoting the development of Community 
      Psychiatry, following WHO main Guidelines. METHODS: About 900 individuals were 
      recruited in 47 centres in metropolitan France between 1999 and 2003 according to 
      the following criteria: i) informed consent to take part in the study, ii) age 
      over 18 yrs, iii) not residing in a care institution and not homeless. Subjects 
      were selected by quota sampling stratified by age, gender, educational and 
      occupational level with the general population of the general population of the 
      centre as sampling frame. The quotas were defined on the basis of the 1999 
      national population census. The data was collected by 1700 nursing students using 
      a 50-item structured questionnaire administered in face-to-face interviews; mean 
      length 40 minutes. The interviewers received a special 3-day training course. The 
      assessment included a specially developed questionnaire enabling description of 
      representations of insane, mentally ill and depressed individuals; the Mini 
      International Neuro-psychiatric Interview (Sheehan and Lecrubier); a specific 
      questionnaire on care consumption in case of positive MINI diagnosis and a 
      sociodemographic questionnaire. In each centre, a team of supervisors 
      (psychiatric staff) coordinated the interviews and the data collection; the local 
      elected and the social and care networks were given information about the 
      research and the results. The results of the local study were systematically 
      presented to the general population, the local elected and the social and care 
      professionals. Prevalence rates of mental disorders are very similar to those 
      observed in other studies. Results on social representations and public beliefs 
      in general population can compare with the international data available. MHGP 
      research-action remains the first study of this scale on the topic of Mental 
      Health in France, combining representations and prevalences description. It 
      allowed the development of anti-stigma actions at a national and local level.
CI  - Copyright 2010 L'Encephale. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.. All rights 
      reserved.
FAU - Caria, A
AU  - Caria A
AD  - Centre collaborateur OMS (Lille, France), EPSM Lille Metropole.
FAU - Roelandt, J-L
AU  - Roelandt JL
FAU - Bellamy, V
AU  - Bellamy V
FAU - Vandeborre, A
AU  - Vandeborre A
LA  - fre
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
TT  - "Sante Mentale en Population Generale : Images et Realites (Smpg)" : Presentation 
      de La methodologie d'enquete.
PL  - France
TA  - Encephale
JT  - L'Encephale
JID - 7505643
SB  - IM
MH  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Depressive Disorder/diagnosis/epidemiology/prevention & control/psychology
MH  - France
MH  - Health Priorities
MH  - Health Services Accessibility
MH  - Health Services Needs and Demand
MH  - Health Surveys/*methods
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Mental Disorders/diagnosis/*epidemiology/prevention & control/psychology
MH  - Mentally Ill Persons/psychology
MH  - Psychotic Disorders/diagnosis/epidemiology/prevention & control/psychology
MH  - Social Stigma
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - World Health Organization
EDAT- 2010/09/04 06:00
MHDA- 2011/01/28 06:00
CRDT- 2010/09/04 06:00
PHST- 2010/09/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/09/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/01/28 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0013-7006(10)70011-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/S0013-7006(10)70011-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Encephale. 2010;36(3 Suppl):1-6. doi: 10.1016/S0013-7006(10)70011-7.