2001/10/01 by José Luís Ayuso‐Mateos, José Luis Vázquez‐Barquero, Christopher Dowrick +9 · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · #Anxiety #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Demography #Depression (economics) #Depressive symptoms #Environmental health #Epidemiology #Internal medicine #Major depressive disorder #Medicine #Mental Health Treatment and Access #Neuropsychiatry #Population #Psychiatry #Treatment of Major Depression
paper · pdf · doi:10.1192/bjp.179.4.308
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BACKGROUND: This is the first report on the epidemiology of depressive disorders from the European Outcome of Depression International Network (ODIN) study. AIMS: To assess the prevalence of depressive disorders in randomly selected samples of the general population in five European countries. METHOD: The study was designed as a cross-sectional two-phase community study using the Beck Depression inventory during Phase 1, and the Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry during Phase 2. RESULTS: An analysis of the combined sample (n=8.764) gave an overall prevalence of depressive disorders of 8.56% (95% CI 7.05-10.37). The figures were 10.05% (95% CI 7.80-12.85) for women and 6.61% (95% CI 4.92-8.83) for men. The centres fall into three categories: high prevalence (urban Ireland and urban UK), low prevalence (urban Spain) and medium prevalence (the remaining sites). CONCLUSIONS: Depressive disorder is a highly prevalent condition in Europe. The major finding is the wide difference in the prevalence of depressive disorders found across the study sites.