The epidemiology of major depressive episodes: results from the International Consortium of Psychiatric Epidemiology (ICPE) Surveys


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ANDRADE L., CARAVEO-ANDUAGA J. J., BERGLUND P., BİJL R. V., De Graaf R., VOLLEBERGH W., ...Daha Fazla

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF METHODS IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, cilt.12, sa.1, ss.3-21, 2003 (SSCI) identifier identifier

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Absence of a common diagnostic interview has hampered cross-national syntheses of epidemiological evidence on major depressive episodes (MDE). Community epidemiological surveys using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview administered face-to-face were carried out in 10 countries in North America (Canada and the US), Latin America (Brazil, Chile, and Mexico), Europe (Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey), and Asia (Japan). The total sample size was more than 37,000.