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This research was supported by PHS grant #1001 35865 and the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program (ECA). The ECA is a series of five epidemiologic research studies performed by independent research teams in collaboration with staff of the division of Biometry and Epidemiology (DBE) of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The NIMH Principal Collaborators are Darrel A. Regier, Ben Z. Locke, and Jack D. Burke, Jr.; the NIMH Project Officer is William J. Huber. The Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators from the five sites are (Yale University, U01 MH 34224) Jerome K. Myers, Myrna M. Weissman, and Gary L. Tischler; (Johns Hopkins University, U01 MH 33870) Morton Kramer and Sam Shapiro; (Washington University, St. Louis, U01 MH 33883) Lee N. Robins and John E. Helzer; (Duke University, U01 MH 35386) Dan Blazer and Linda George; (University of California, Los Angeles, U01 MH 35865) Marvin Karno, Richard L. Hough, Javier I. Escobar, M. Audrey Burnam, and Dianne M. Timbers. A portion of Jacqueline Golding's and Arlene Brownell's work occurred while they were postdoctoral fellows on an NIMH psychiatric epidemiology training grant; Michael S. Goldstein, Director, School of Public Health, at the University of California, Los Angeles. We thank Richard Hough for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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Golding, J.M., Gongla, P. & Brownell, A. Feasibility of validating survey self-reports of mental health service use. Am J Commun Psychol 16, 39–51 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00906071
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