PMID- 21132091
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231105
IS  - 1614-4864 (Print)
IS  - 1614-4864 (Linking)
VI  - 6
IP  - 1
DP  - 2009 Jan 1
TI  - The WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys.
PG  - 5-9
AB  - 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 aimed at 
      providing information to mental health policy makers about the prevalence, 
      burden, and unmet need for treatment of common mental disorders. Results show 
      that mental disorders are commonly occurring in all participating countries. The 
      inter-quartile range (IQR: 25(th)-75(th) percentiles) of lifetime DSM-IV disorder 
      prevalence estimates (combining anxiety, mood, disruptive behavior, and substance 
      disorders) is 18.1-36.1%. The IQR of 12-month prevalence estimates is 9.8-19.1%. 
      Analysis of age-of-onset reports shows that many mental disorders begin in 
      childhood-adolescence and have significant adverse effects on subsequent role 
      transitions. Adult mental disorders are found in the WMH data to be associated 
      with high levels of role impairment. Despite this burden, the majority of mental 
      disorders go untreated. Although these results suggest that expansion of 
      treatment could be cost-effective from both the employer perspective and the 
      societal perspective, treatment effectiveness trials are needed to confirm this 
      suspicion. The WMH results regarding impairments are being used to target several 
      such interventions.
FAU - Kessler, Ronald C
AU  - Kessler RC
FAU - Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio
AU  - Aguilar-Gaxiola S
FAU - Alonso, Jordi
AU  - Alonso J
FAU - Chatterji, Somnath
AU  - Chatterji S
FAU - Lee, Sing
AU  - Lee S
FAU - Ustun, T Bedirhan
AU  - Ustun TB
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 DA016558/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 DA016558-06/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
GR  - K05 DA015799/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U01 MH060220/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 DA012058-05/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 MH070884-04/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 DA012058/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 MH070884/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U01 MH060220-08/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Germany
TA  - Psychiatrie (Stuttg)
JT  - Psychiatrie (Stuttgart, Germany)
JID - 101233816
PMC - PMC2995950
MID - NIHMS96041
EDAT- 2009/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 2009/01/01 00:01
PMCR- 2010/12/02
CRDT- 2010/12/07 06:00
PHST- 2010/12/07 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2010/12/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychiatrie (Stuttg). 2009 Jan 1;6(1):5-9.