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Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episodeEvelyn Bromet
Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, South Campus, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8790, NY, USA
BMC Med 9:90. 2011..In this paper, we present data on the prevalence, impairment and demographic correlates of depression from 18 high and low- to middle-income countries in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative...- Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literatureRonald C Kessler
Department of Healthcare Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Curr Opin Psychiatry 20:359-64. 2007..The aim of this article is to review recent epidemiological research on age-of-onset of mental disorders, focusing on the WHO World Mental Health surveys... - Prevalence and effects of mood disorders on work performance in a nationally representative sample of U.S. workersRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:1561-8. 2006..Bipolar disorder has been overlooked both because of the failure to distinguish between major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder and by the failure to evaluate the workplace costs of mania/hypomania... - Validity of the assessment of bipolar spectrum disorders in the WHO CIDI 3.0Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Affect Disord 96:259-69. 2006..CIDI BPD screening scales were also evaluated... - Mental illness and suicidality after Hurricane KatrinaRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Bull World Health Organ 84:930-9. 2006..To estimate the impact of Hurricane Katrina on mental illness and suicidality by comparing results of a post-Katrina survey with those of an earlier survey... - The global burden of anxiety and mood disorders: putting the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) findings into perspectiveRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 68:10-9. 2007..Elaborations that feature such distinctions have the potential to substantially increase the relevance of the ESEMeD findings for European health care policy... - Smoking and suicidal behaviors in the National Comorbidity Survey: ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:369-77. 2007.... - The effects of copayments on medication adherence during the first two years of prescription drug treatmentRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Occup Environ Med 49:597-609. 2007..The aim of this study was to examine effects of initial prescription copayment size and observed increase on adherence by analyzing data from a managed care database... - Validity of the World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) Screener in a representative sample of health plan membersRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 16:52-65. 2007..90. The brevity and ability to discriminate DSM-IV cases from non-cases make the six-question ASRS Screener attractive for use both in community epidemiological surveys and in clinical outreach and case-finding initiatives... - The epidemiology of panic attacks, panic disorder, and agoraphobia in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:415-24. 2006..Only limited information exists about the epidemiology of DSM-IV panic attacks (PAs) and panic disorder (PD)... - The prevalence and correlates of adult ADHD in the United States: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:716-23. 2006..Despite growing interest in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), little is known about its prevalence or correlates... - Rethinking the duration requirement for generalized anxiety disorder: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 35:1073-82. 2005.... - The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative Version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 13:93-121. 2004..Elaborate CD-ROM-based training materials are available to teach interviewers how to administer the interview as well as to teach supervisors how to monitor the quality of data collection... - The epidemiology of dual diagnosisRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Biol Psychiatry 56:730-7. 2004..The article closes with a discussion of ways epidemiologic research can be used to help target and evaluate interventions aimed at preventing secondary substance use disorders by treating early-onset primary mental disorders... - Trends in suicide ideation, plans, gestures, and attempts in the United States, 1990-1992 to 2001-2003Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 293:2487-95. 2005..Little is known about trends in suicidal ideation, plans, gestures, or attempts or about their treatment. Such data are needed to guide and evaluate policies to reduce suicide-related behaviors... - Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:593-602. 2005..Little is known about lifetime prevalence or age of onset of DSM-IV disorders... - Patterns and predictors of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder persistence into adulthood: results from the national comorbidity survey replicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:1442-51. 2005..Despite growing interest in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), little is known about predictors of persistence of childhood cases into adulthood... - The prevalence and effects of adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder on work performance in a nationally representative sample of workersRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:565-72. 2005..The prevalence and workplace consequences of adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are unknown... - Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders, 1990 to 2003Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 352:2515-23. 2005..Although the 1990s saw enormous change in the mental health care system in the United States, little is known about changes in the prevalence or rate of treatment of mental disorders... - The prevalence and correlates of nonaffective psychosis in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:668-76. 2005..To estimate the prevalence and correlates of clinician-diagnosed DSM-IV nonaffective psychosis (NAP) in a national household survey... - Psychiatric epidemiology: challenges and opportunitiesRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int Rev Psychiatry 19:509-21. 2007..Finally, an agenda is proposed for an expansion of clinical psychiatric epidemiology to include a focus on both naturalistic and quasi-experimental studies of illness course and treatment response in diverse clinical samples... - Co-morbid major depression and generalized anxiety disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey follow-upR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 38:365-74. 2008.... - Trends in mental illness and suicidality after Hurricane KatrinaR C Kessler
Department of Healthcare Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Mol Psychiatry 13:374-84. 2008..Outcomes were only weakly related to socio-demographic variables, meaning that high prevalence of hurricane-related mental illness remains widely distributed in the population nearly 2 years after the hurricane... - National comorbidity survey replication adolescent supplement (NCS-A): III. Concordance of DSM-IV/CIDI diagnoses with clinical reassessmentsRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:386-99. 2009..0 in the U.S. National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)... - Design and field procedures in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 18:69-83. 2009..Taken together, these results show that the NCS-A is an efficient sample of the target population with good representativeness on a range of socio-demographic and geographic variables... - Age differences in major depression: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)R C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 40:225-37. 2010..Although depression appears to decrease in late life, this could be due to misattribution of depressive symptom to physical disorders that increase in late life... - Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiativeRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 19:4-22. 2010..83; range 0.76-0.89; inter-quartile range 0.81-0.85). Based on this result, optimal scaling rules are presented for use by investigators working with the K6 scale in the countries studied... - Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health SurveysRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Br J Psychiatry 197:378-85. 2010..Although significant associations of childhood adversities with adult mental disorders are widely documented, most studies focus on single childhood adversities predicting single disorders... - Structure and diagnosis of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: analysis of expanded symptom criteria from the Adult ADHD Clinical Diagnostic ScaleRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1168-78. 2010..Controversy exists about the appropriate criteria for a diagnosis of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)... - Reliability and validity of the brief insomnia questionnaire in the America insomnia surveyRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Sleep 33:1539-49. 2010.... - Development of lifetime comorbidity in the World Health Organization world mental health surveysRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:90-100. 2011..Although numerous studies have examined the role of latent variables in the structure of comorbidity among mental disorders, none has examined their role in the development of comorbidity... - National comorbidity survey replication adolescent supplement (NCS-A): II. Overview and designRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:380-5. 2009..To present an overview of the design and field procedures of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A)... - Sample and design considerations in post-disaster mental health needs assessment tracking surveysRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 17:S6-S20. 2008.... - The effects of rheumatoid arthritis on labor force participation, work performance, and healthcare costs in two workplace samplesRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Boston, MA, USA
J Occup Environ Med 50:88-98. 2008..To assess the workplace costs of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the employer perspective... - DSM-IV pathological gambling in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 38:1351-60. 2008..Little is known about the prevalence or correlates of DSM-IV pathological gambling (PG)... - The descriptive epidemiology of commonly occurring mental disorders in the United StatesRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 29:115-29. 2008.... - The prevalence and correlates of workplace depression in the national comorbidity survey replicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Occup Environ Med 50:381-90. 2008..To review evidence on the workplace prevalence and correlates of major depressive episodes, with a particular focus on the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, the most recent national survey to focus on these issues... - The prevalence and workplace costs of adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a large manufacturing firmR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 39:137-47. 2009..Sickness absence, work performance and workplace accidents-injuries were assessed with the WHO Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)... - Individual and societal effects of mental disorders on earnings in the United States: results from the national comorbidity survey replicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:703-11. 2008..The purpose of this report was to update previous estimates of the association between mental disorders and earnings. Current estimates for 2002 are based on data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)... - Effects of enhanced foster care on the long-term physical and mental health of foster care alumniRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:625-33. 2008.... - The association between smoking and subsequent suicide-related outcomes in the National Comorbidity Survey panel sampleR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Mol Psychiatry 14:1132-42. 2009..These results refine our understanding of the ways in which smoking is associated with later SROs and for the most part argue against the view that these associations are due to causal effects of smoking... - The effects of latent variables in the development of comorbidity among common mental disordersRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Depress Anxiety 28:29-39. 2011.... - Distinguishing generalized anxiety disorder from major depression: prevalence and impairment from current pure and comorbid disorders in the US and OntarioRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 11:99-111. 2002..The paper closes with a discussion of the methodological complexities associated with generalizing to comorbidities that involve rare conditions or more than two disorders... - The World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Occup Environ Med 45:156-74. 2003..The paper closes with a brief discussion of the calibration methodology used to monetize HPQ reports and of future directions in substantive research based on the HPQ... - Impairment in pure and comorbid generalized anxiety disorder and major depression at 12 months in two national surveysR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 156:1915-23. 1999..The authors questioned whether generalized anxiety disorder itself is associated with role impairment or whether the impairment of patients with generalized anxiety disorder is due to depression or other comorbid disorders... - Psychiatric epidemiology: selected recent advances and future directionsR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Bull World Health Organ 78:464-74. 2000..Despite encouraging advances, much work still needs to be conducted before psychiatric epidemiology can realize its potential to improve the mental health of populations... - The effects of chronic medical conditions on work loss and work cutbackR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
J Occup Environ Med 43:218-25. 2001.... - Insomnia and the performance of US workers: results from the America insomnia surveyRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Sleep 34:1161-71. 2011..To estimate the prevalence and associations of broadly defined (i.e., meeting full ICD-10, DSM-IV, or RDC/ICSD-2 inclusion criteria) insomnia with work performance net of comorbid conditions in the America Insomnia Survey (AIS)... - Pollen and mold exposure impairs the work performance of employees with allergic rhinitisR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 1248, USA
Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 87:289-95. 2001..Retrospective recall bias is likely to be a major cause of this variability... - Patterns and predictors of treatment seeking after onset of a substance use disorderR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 58:1065-71. 2001..We studied survey respondents aged 18 through 54 years to determine consistent predictors of treatment seeking after onset of a DSM-III-R substance use disorder... - Patterns and correlates of generalized anxiety disorder in community samplesRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 63:4-10. 2002..Although generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is at least twice as prevalent as panic disorder and is among the commonly occurring mental disorders, changing diagnostic criteria have hampered the cumulation of data on patterns and correlates... - The categorical versus dimensional assessment controversy in the sociology of mental illnessRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Suite 215, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Health Soc Behav 43:171-88. 2002..The paper closes with an argument for the tandem use of categorical and dimensional assessments in future sociological research... - Epidemiology of women and depressionRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Suite 215, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
J Affect Disord 74:5-13. 2003..Depression is the leading cause of disease-related disability among women in the world today. Depression is much more common among women than men, with female/male risk ratios roughly 2:1... - Long-term trends in the use of complementary and alternative medical therapies in the United StatesR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ann Intern Med 135:262-8. 2001..Although recent research has shown that many people in the United States use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, little is known about time trends in use... - Epidemiological perspectives for the development of future diagnostic systemsRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychopathology 35:158-61. 2002.... - Screening for serious mental illness in the general populationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Suite 215, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:184-9. 2003..Public Law 102-321 established a block grant for adults with "serious mental illness" (SMI) and required the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a method to estimate the prevalence of SMI... - Using the World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ) to evaluate the indirect workplace costs of illnessRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Polity, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:S23-37. 2004..Innovative data analysis strategies are described to address these problems... - Social phobia subtypes in the National Comorbidity SurveyR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:613-9. 1998..This article presents epidemiologic data on the distinction between social phobia characterized by pure speaking fears and that characterized by other social fears... - Epidemiology of DSM-III-R major depression and minor depression among adolescents and young adults in the National Comorbidity SurveyR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
Depress Anxiety 7:3-14. 1998..Increasing prevalences of prior comorbid disorders were found to play an important part in explaining the cohort effect for depression... - The social consequences of psychiatric disorders, III: probability of marital stabilityR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 5899, USA
Am J Psychiatry 155:1092-6. 1998..The associations of prior DSM-III-R disorders with probability and timing of subsequent divorce were examined... - Lifetime panic-depression comorbidity in the National Comorbidity SurveyR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 55:801-8. 1998..The National Comorbidity Survey is a nationally representative survey of the prevalences and correlates of DSM-III-R disorders in the US household population... - Prevalence of and risk factors for lifetime suicide attempts in the National Comorbidity SurveyR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:617-26. 1999..Risk factors for these transitions are also studied... - The prevalence, distribution, and mental health correlates of perceived discrimination in the United StatesR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Health Soc Behav 40:208-30. 1999.... - The prevalence and correlates of untreated serious mental illnessR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 36:987-1007. 2001..Efforts to increase both self-recognition of need for treatment and the patient centeredness of care also are needed... - Childhood adversities and adult psychiatric disorders in the national comorbidity survey replication II: associations with persistence of DSM-IV disordersKatie A McLaughlin
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:124-32. 2010..This distinction is important for conceptual and practical purposes... - Childhood adversities and adult psychiatric disorders in the national comorbidity survey replication I: associations with first onset of DSM-IV disordersJennifer Greif Green
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:113-23. 2010..Because CAs are highly clustered, this approach results in overestimating the importance of individual CAs. Multivariate CA studies have been based on insufficiently complex models... - Age differences in the prevalence and co-morbidity of DSM-IV major depressive episodes: results from the WHO World Mental Health Survey InitiativeRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Depress Anxiety 27:351-64. 2010..Although depression appears to decrease in late life, this could be due to misattribution of depressive symptoms to physical disorders that increase in late life... - Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) III: associations with functional impairment related to DSM-IV disordersK A McLaughlin
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 40:847-59. 2010..We report the associations between CAs and functional impairment associated with 12-month DSM-IV disorders in a national sample... - The economic burden of schizophrenia in the United States in 2002Eric Q Wu
Analysis Group, Inc, Boston, MA 02199, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 66:1122-9. 2005..This study quantifies excess annual costs associated with schizophrenia patients in the United States in 2002 from a societal perspective... - Failure and delay in initial treatment contact after first onset of mental disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationPhilip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:603-13. 2005..An understudied crucial step in the help-seeking process is making prompt initial contact with a treatment provider after first onset of a mental disorder... - Recent care of common mental disorders in the United States : prevalence and conformance with evidence-based recommendationsP S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:284-92. 2000..Cost-effective interventions are needed to improve both access to and quality of treatment... - Risk of psychiatric disorders among individuals reporting same-sex sexual partners in the National Comorbidity SurveyS E Gilman
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 91:933-9. 2001..Further research is needed to replicate and explore the causal mechanisms underlying this association... - Employer burden of mild, moderate, and severe major depressive disorder: mental health services utilization and costs, and work performanceHoward G Birnbaum
Analysis Group, Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Depress Anxiety 27:78-89. 2010..Treatment utilization/costs and work performance for persons with major depressive disorder (MDD) by severity of illness is not well documented... - Broadening the definition of generalized anxiety disorder: effects on prevalence and associations with other disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationAyelet Meron Ruscio
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, USA
J Anxiety Disord 21:662-76. 2007..Further research is needed to determine whether broadening the current diagnostic criteria results in a more valid characterization of GAD... - Serious emotional disturbance among youths exposed to Hurricane Katrina 2 years postdisasterKatie A McLaughlin
Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:1069-78. 2009.... - Effects of efforts to increase response rates on a workplace chronic condition screening surveyPhilip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 40:752-60. 2002..Confirmation of these results is required, however, in new samples. Additional research is also needed on innovative and cost-effective strategies to improve HRA response rates... - The importance of irritability as a symptom of major depressive disorder: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationM Fava
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Mol Psychiatry 15:856-67. 2010..Further investigation is warranted of distinct family aggregation, risk factors and treatment response. Consideration should also be given to including irritability as a nondiagnostic symptom of adult MDD in DSM-V and ICD-11... - The economic burden of depression in the United States: how did it change between 1990 and 2000?Paul E Greenberg
Analysis Group, Inc, Boston, MA 02199, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 64:1465-75. 2003..9 billion dollars using revised prevalence data and a refined workplace cost estimation approach. The objective of the current report is to provide a 10-year update of these estimates using the same methodological framework... - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: concordance of the adolescent version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.0 (CIDI) with the K-SADS in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent (NCS-A) supplementJennifer Greif Green
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 19:34-49. 2010..78]. Implications for assessing ADHD using the CIDI and the effect of different informants on measurement are discussed... - Risk for psychiatric disorder among immigrants and their US-born descendants: evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationJoshua Breslau
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 195:189-95. 2007..This pattern is consistent with either of two causal processes, one involving early socialization in the United States and the other involving postmigration experiences among immigrants who arrive in the United States as adults... - Patterns and correlates of contacting clergy for mental disorders in the United StatesPhilip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 38:647-73. 2003.... - The associations of migraines and other headaches with work performance: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)R C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cephalalgia 30:722-34. 2010..These strong associations suggest that workplace interventions for severe or persistent migraines might have a positive return-on-investment for employers... - The epidemiology of generalized anxiety disorderR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 24:19-39. 2001.... - Posttraumatic stress disorder: the burden to the individual and to societyR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 61:4-12; discussion 13-4. 2000..Little is known about the total population prevalence and societal costs of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); this report reviews relevant literature on these topics... - Disruption of existing mental health treatments and failure to initiate new treatment after Hurricane KatrinaPhilip S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:34-41. 2008..The authors examined the disruption of ongoing treatments among individuals with preexisting mental disorders and the failure to initiate treatment among individuals with new-onset mental disorders in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... - Epidemiology of anxiety disordersRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2:21-35. 2010..This possibility has not yet been extensively explored but warrants further study given the high societal costs of anxiety disorders... - The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): background and aimsRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 13:60-8. 2004..This paper presents a brief review of these aims... - The US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): design and field proceduresRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 13:69-92. 2004..Empirical information is presented on non-response bias, design effect, and the trade-off between bias and efficiency in minimizing total mean-squared error of estimates by trimming weights... - Should excessive worry be required for a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder? Results from the US National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationAyelet Meron Ruscio
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 35:1761-72. 2005..These findings challenge the validity of the excessiveness requirement and highlight the need for further research into the optimal definition of GAD... - The World Health Organization Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general populationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 35:245-56. 2005..The current report presents data on concordance of the ASRS and of a short-form ASRS screener with blind clinical diagnoses in a community sample... - The global burden of mental disorders: an update from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveysRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 18:23-33. 2009..The paper reviews recent findings from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys on the global burden of mental disorders... - The prevalence and correlates of DSM-IV intermittent explosive disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 63:669-78. 2006..Little is known about the epidemiology of intermittent explosive disorder (IED)... - Clinical calibration of DSM-IV diagnoses in the World Mental Health (WMH) version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMHCIDI)Ronald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 13:122-39. 2004..A brief illustration of this approach is presented in comparing the precision of SCID and predicted SCID estimates of prevalence and correlates under varying sample designs... - Prevalence, comorbidity, and service utilization for mood disorders in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryRonald C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 3:137-58. 2007..The article closes with a discussion of future directions for research... - Associations of substance use, abuse, and dependence with subsequent suicidal behaviorG Borges
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 151:781-9. 2000..Clinicians need to be aware that current substance use, even in the absence of abuse or dependence, is a significant risk factor for unplanned suicide attempts among ideators... - Adult attachment in a nationally representative sampleK D Mickelson
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 73:1092-106. 1997..Various types of adult psychopathologies and personality traits were also strongly related to adult attachment. Implications for adult attachment theory and future research are discussed... - Initiation of and adherence to treatment for mental disorders: examination of patient advocate group members in 11 countriesP S Wang
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 38:926-36. 2000..Greater understanding of the help-seeking process is needed to reduce the level of unmet need for mental health treatment... - The effects of co-morbidity on the onset and persistence of generalized anxiety disorder in the ICPE surveys. International Consortium in Psychiatric EpidemiologyR C Kessler
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115-5899, USA
Psychol Med 32:1213-25. 2002..History of simple phobia might be a GAD risk marker. Further research is needed to explore the mechanisms involved in the relationship between simple phobia and subsequent GAD... - Mental disorders, comorbidity and suicidal behavior: results from the National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationM K Nock
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Mol Psychiatry 15:868-76. 2010..Future research must further delineate the mechanisms through which people come to think about suicide and progress from suicidal thoughts to attempts... - Child sexual abuse and subsequent psychopathology: results from the National Comorbidity SurveyB E Molnar
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 91:753-60. 2001..This study examined the relationship between child sexual abuse (CSA) and subsequent onset of psychiatric disorders, accounting for other childhood adversities, CSA type, and chronicity of the abuse... - Twelve-month mental disorders in South Africa: prevalence, service use and demographic correlates in the population-based South African Stress and Health StudyD R Williams
Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Psychol Med 38:211-20. 2008..South Africa's history and current social conditions suggest that mental disorders are likely to be a major contributor to disease burden, but there has been no national study using standardized assessment tools...
Research Grants
- Risk Factors for Psychopathology in the WHO WMH SurveysRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2006..The unprecedented size and substantive richness of the WMH database will allow important contributions to be made in each of these six areas of investigation. ..
- Epidemiology - National Comorbidity Survey ReplicationRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2007..physical disorders on family burden; and (vi) to analyze the temporal unfolding of multivariate comorbid disorder profiles over the life course. ..
- Risk Factors for Psychopathology in the WHO WMH SurveysRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2009..Third, the level of detail in the description of data analysis plans has been substantially expanded in this revised submission in response to reviewer comments. ..
- Quantifying the Value of Value-Based PurchasingRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
- MENTAL DISORDERS AS RISK FACTORS FOR SUBSTANCE DISORDERSRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2003....
- Outreach and Treatment for Depression in the Labor ForceRonald Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2005..This is an extremely important opportunity for rapid and widespread dissemination in an area of research where dissemination of positive results has traditionally been a serious problem. ..
- Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory GroupRonald C Kessler; Fiscal Year: 2010....