IMPORTANCE Bariatric surgery is associated with sustained weight loss and improved physical health status for severely obese individuals. Mental health conditions may be common among patients seeking bariatric surgery; however, the prevalence of these conditions and whether they are associated with postoperative outcomes remains unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of mental health ...

OBJECTIVE To show the 12 month prevalences of mental disorders, 12-month treatment contact and use of mental health services among Cook islanders resident in New Zealand. DATA (A) The New Zealand Mental Health Survey (NZMHS) is a nationally representative face-to-face household survey, carried out in 2003-2004. It surveyed 12,992 New Zealand adults aged 16 or more including 2374 Pacflc people...

the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence rate of mental disorders among people aged 15 and over. after a pilot study for estimating the sample size, 625 subjects were selected by random cluster sampling from family information files in sowmaesara health centre office. in this study, ghq-28 was used as a screening tool, and dsm-iii-r clinical interview checklist for diagnostic inter...

Note: See appendix table 3 for percentages, standard errors, and significance tests. *Comparison group. **Difference with the comparison group is significant at the 95% confidence level. aIncludes inmates with a score of 13 or more on the K6 scale. See Methodology. bIncludes inmates who reported they had ever been told by a mental health professional they had a mental disorder. cIncludes inmate...

BACKGROUND Most child victims of homicide are killed by a parent or step-parent. This large population study provides a contemporary and detailed description of filicide perpetrators. We examined the relationship between filicide and mental illness at the time of the offence, and care received from mental health services in the past. METHOD All filicide and filicide-suicide cases in England a...