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Depressive disorders in Europe
— prevalence figures from the ODIN study | | Author(s) | J L Ayuso-Mateos, J L Vazquez-Barquero, C Dowrick |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 179, October 2001 |
| Pages | pp 308-316 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Evaluation ; Cross sectional surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | This is the first report on the epidemiology of depression disorders from the European Outcome of Depression International Network (ODIN) study. The study was designed to assess the prevalence of depressive disorders in randomly selected samples of the general population in Greece, Norway, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. The study used the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) during Phase 1 and the Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry during Phase 2. Prevalence of depressive disorders in the 8,764 study population was 8.56% (women 10.05%; men 6.61%). Prevalence was high in urban Ireland and urban UK, and low in urban Spain. Depressive disorder is thus a highly prevalent condition in Europe, but with wide differences between study sites. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011019205 A |
| Classmark | ENR: 4C: 3KB: 74 |
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