OBJECTIVE To provide a description of the methods and key findings of the 2007 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. METHOD A national face-to-face household survey of 8841 (60% response rate) community residents aged between 16 and 85 years was carried out using the World Mental Health Survey Initiative version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Diagnos...

OBJECTIVE This article examines social and occupational disability associated with several DSM-IV mental disorders in a group of adult primary care outpatients. METHOD The subjects were 1,001 primary care patients (aged 18-70 years) in a large health maintenance organization. Data on each patient's sociodemographic characteristics and functional disability, including scores on the Sheehan Dis...

OBJECTIVE To compare patients with and without mental disorders who seek services from a complementary therapy practitioner with regard to quality of life, reasons for seeking complementary therapies, complaints, and physical conditions. METHOD We studied new patients who attended a complementary therapy clinic offering acupuncture treatment between July 1, 1993, and March 31, 1995. We collec...

Background The characteristic differences among the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries in terms of trade and investment, society and cultural values, medical information and technology, and the living and working environment have become major health problems in terms of mental disorders. The purpose of this article is to identify the gaps in those aspects, to propose mental health and men...

BACKGROUND Researchers generally agree that mental disorder represents a burden to the family. The present study concerns the subjective burden of living with a person with mental disorder, more specifically the association between mental disorder in the index person and subjective well-being and symptoms of anxiety and depression in the spouse. METHODS Data were obtained from questionnaires ...

conclusions the results of this study provide information about the prevalence of minor psychiatric disorder among nurses, and factors, which affect the prevalence of such disorders. these findings can be used in strategic planning processes to improve nurses’ mental health. results the prevalence of minor psychiatric disorder among nurses was estimated to be 27.5%. gender and sleep disorders w...

OBJECTIVE To establish the role of psychiatrists and mental disorder in assisted dying practices in countries and states where such practices are legal. METHODS The authors reviewed the Assisted Dying Acts and official statistical reports from Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the states of Washington and Oregon in the U.S.A. The data extracted related to the role of psychiatrists in ...

A link between mental disorder and freedom is clearly present in the introduction of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). It mentions "an important loss of freedom" as one of the possible defining features of mental disorder. Meanwhile, it remains unclear how "an important loss of freedom" should be understood. In order to get a clearer view ...