The Hong Kong mental morbidity survey: Background and study design

L. C.W. Lam; W. C. Chan; C. S.M. Wong; E. Y.H. Chen; R. M.K. Ng; E. H.M. Lee; W. C. Chang; S. F. Hung; E. F.C. Cheung; P. C. Sham; H. F.K. Chiu; M. Lam; T. P. Chiang; J. Van Os; J. T.F. Lau; G. Lewis; P. Bebbington

The Hong Kong mental morbidity survey: Background and study design

L. C.W. Lam^*, W. C. Chan, C. S.M. Wong, E. Y.H. Chen, R. M.K. Ng, E. H.M. Lee, W. C. Chang, S. F. Hung, E. F.C. Cheung, P. C. Sham, H. F.K. Chiu, M. Lam, T. P. Chiang, J. Van Os, J. T.F. Lau, G. Lewis, P. Bebbington

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Abstract

Mental disorders are highly prevalent conditions with immense disease burden. To inform health and social services policy formulation, local psychiatric epidemiological data are required. The Hong Kong Mental Morbidity Survey is a 3-year population-based study in which 5700 community-dwelling Chinese adults aged between 16 and 75 years were interviewed with the aim of evaluating the prevalence, co-morbidity, functional impairment, physical morbidity, and social determinants of significant mental disorders in the population. This paper describes the background and design of the survey, and is the first territory-wide psychiatric epidemiological study in Hong Kong.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-36
Number of pages	7
Journal	East Asian Archives of Psychiatry
Volume	24
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014

Keywords

Asian continental ancestry group
Health surveys
Mental disorders / epidemiology

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