EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MAJOR MENTAL DISORDERS

这个应用程序将使我能够从兼职研究， 精神科研究由兼读制转为全日制 流行病学 拟议的研究具有方法论和实质性 组成部分，是我在流行病学流域工作的延伸 地区（ECA）调查和其他研究，我已经参与了超过 过去几年。 该研究有三个长期目标： 1)为了检验精神病诊断的预测效度， 非临床医生（外行）访谈者数据，以将其与预测性 临床医生诊断的有效性，并评估的影响， 流行病学研究的比较结果。 2)检查受试者的精神疾病自然史 在一般人群中使用诊断标准确定， 通过对临床上确定的主题的研究而开发的 并评估这些结果对人口的影响 问题研究 3)为了进一步制定统一的病例识别方法， 临床和流行病学研究。 提出了四个具体项目。 这项工作需要协作 与美国其他调查人员的努力， 王国和世界卫生组织。

This application would enable me to move from part-time research and part-time administration to full-time research in psychiatric epidemiology. The proposed research had methodological and substantive components and is an extension of my work in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) survey and other research I have been involved with over the past several years. The research has three long-term goals: 1) To examine the predictive validity of psychiatric diagnoses based on non-clinician (lay) interviewer data, to compare this to the predictive validity of clinician diagnoses, and to assess the implications of the results of this comparison for epidemiologic studies. 2) To examine the natural history of psychiatric disorder in subjects ascertained in the general population using diagnosic criteria which have been developed through the study of subjects ascertained in clinical settings and to assess the implications of these results for population studies. 3) To further the development of uniform methods of case identification in clinical and epidemiologic research. Four specific projects are outlined. The work entails collaborative efforts with other investigators in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and at the World Health Organization.