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- Title
The Hong Kong Mental Morbidity Survey: Background and Study Design.
- Authors
Lam, L. C. W.; Chan, W. C.; Wong, C. S. M.; Chen, E. Y. H.; Ng, R. M. K.; Lee, E. H. M.; Chang, W. C.; Hung, S. F.; Cheung, E. F. C.; Sham, P.C.; Chiu, H. F. K.; Lam, M.; Chiang, T. P.; van Os, J.; Lau, J. T. F.; Lewis, G.; Bebbington, P.
- Abstract
Mental disorders are highly prevalent conditions with immense disease burden. To inform health and social services policy formulation, local psychiatric epidemiological data are required. The Hong Kong Mental Morbidity Survey is a 3-year population-based study in which 5700 community-dwelling Chinese adults aged between 16 and 75 years were interviewed with the aim of evaluating the prevalence, co-morbidity, functional impairment, physical morbidity, and social determinants of significant mental disorders in the population. This paper describes the background and design of the survey, and is the first territory-wide psychiatric epidemiological study in Hong Kong.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); BECK Hopelessness Scale; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research; EXPERIENCE; FIELDWORK (Educational method); INTERVIEWING; LIFE change events; RESEARCH methodology; MENTAL illness; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; SUICIDAL ideation; DISEASE prevalence; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; FUNCTIONAL assessment; CLASSIFICATION; ADULTS
- Publication
East Asian Archives of Psychiatry, 2014, Vol 24, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
2078-9947
- Publication type
Article