EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MAJOR MENTAL DISORDERS

这个应用程序将使我能够从兼职研究和 对全日制精神病学研究的兼职管理 流行病学。拟议的研究具有方法性和实质性。 是我在流行病学集水区工作的延伸 区域(ECA)调查和我在过去几年中参与的其他研究 过去的几年里。 这项研究有三个长期目标： 1)检查精神病学诊断的预测有效性，基于 非临床医生(业馀)面试者数据，将其与预测性数据进行比较 临床医生诊断的有效性，并评估 这一比较结果用于流行病学研究。 2)检查受试者精神障碍的自然病史 使用诊断标准在普通人群中确定，该诊断标准具有 是通过对临床确定的对象的研究而发展起来的 并评估这些结果对人口的影响 学习。 3)进一步发展统一的病例鉴定方法 临床和流行病学研究。 概述了四个具体项目。这项工作需要合作 与美国、美国的其他调查人员合作 在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.