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Since the turn of the century and up to about 1980, there have been between 80 and 100 studies in which investigators, or teams of investigators, have attempted to count cases of mental disorders in communities all over the world, whether or not the cases located are people who have ever been in treatment with members of the mental health professions (B. P. Dohrenwend & B. S. Dohrenwend, 1982). These epidemiological investigations have been described as “true prevalence” studies, and the cases they have identified consist of disorders that were in evidence at the time of the study regardless of the time of onset. Very few of these studies have involved successive surveys over time. As a consequence, therefore, by and large, they do not provide data on incidence.
This program is supported by grants K05-MH14663, MH36208, and MH30710 from the National Institute of Mental Health and DE05989 from the National Institute of Dental Research.
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Dohrenwend, B.P. (1986). Note on a Program of Research on Alternative Social Psychological Models of Relationships between Life Stress and Psychopathology. In: Appley, M.H., Trumbull, R. (eds) Dynamics of Stress. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5122-1_14
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