Seasonal Variations in Mental Disorders in the General Population of a Country with a Maritime Climate: Findings from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study

Seasonal variations in the prevalence of mental disorders in general population surveys have rarely been noted. Using a representative sample of the Dutch population, the authors studied the seasonality of 1-month mental disorders and gender-by-season and age-by-season interactions. Data were obtained from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study, a psychiatric epidemiologic study in which 7,076 adults aged 18–64 years were interviewed (1996) using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Seasonal statistical differences were not found for the category “any diagnosis,”... Mehr ...

Verfasser: de Graaf, Ron
van Dorsselaer, Saskia
ten Have, Margreet
Schoemaker, Casper
Vollebergh, Wilma A. M.
Dokumenttyp: TEXT
Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
Verlag/Hrsg.: Oxford University Press
Schlagwörter: ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/162/7/654