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The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): background and aims.

International journal of methods in psychiatric research ·Vol. 13 ·No. 2 ·2004-00-00 ·Pages 60-8

Kessler RC, Merikangas KR

Abstract

The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) is a new nationally representative community household survey of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the US. The NCS-R was carried out a decade after the original NCS. The NCS-R repeats many of the questions from the NCS and also expands the NCS questioning to include assessments based on the more recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) diagnostics system (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). The NCS-R was designed to (1) investigate time trends and their correlates over the decade of the 1990s and (2) expand the assessment of the prevalence and correlates of mental disorders beyond the assessment in the baseline NCS in order to address a number of important substantive and methodological issues that were raised by the NCS. This paper presents a brief review of these aims.

MeSH Terms
Comorbidity/trends Cross-Sectional Studies Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Epidemiologic Research Design Humans Mental Disorders/diagnosis,epidemiology,therapy Reproducibility of Results Statistics as Topic/trends United States/epidemiology
Authors & Affiliations
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Kessler Ronald C
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. [email protected]
Merikangas Kathleen R
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Article Info
Journal
International journal of methods in psychiatric research
Abbr.
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res
ISSN
1049-8931
DOI
10.1002/mpr.166
Email
[email protected]
Published
2004-00-00
Pages
60-8
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
9111433
PMCID
PMC6878416
Subset
IM
Grants
NIMH NIH HHS · U01-MH60220 · United States
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1002/mpr.166 PMC Full Text View journal details
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