CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY

申请者提议延长和发展她目前的项目 通过检查地理变异来进行流行病学研究 年儿童和成人人群精神障碍患病率 对比鲜明的环境(农村、小城镇和城市)。二 申请书中描述了补充研究：(1)a 农村-城市儿童精神障碍研究，利用数据 申请人最近完成的城市测量与 在农村-小城镇管理部门进行拟议的儿童调查 康涅狄格州卫生区；和(2)城乡分析 成人焦虑和抑郁的差异，使用现存的 斯特林县研究数据库和城市复制 她的论文工作昆斯布鲁克研究使用的调查。如中所示 先前的研究，努力量化人群的疾病率 它们的社会环境关联性将与 精神病学评估中的基本方法学工作，并将 在服务规划中有直接的公共卫生应用。

The applicant proposes to extend and develop her current program of epidemiologic research by examining geographic variation in rates of in psychiatric disorders in child and adult populations in contrasting settings (rural, small town, and urban). Two complementary studies are described in the application: (1) a rural-urban study of child psychiatric disorders, utilizing data of the applicant's recently completed urban survey in conjunction with a proposed child survey in a rural-small town administrative health region of Connecticut; and (2) analysis of rural-urban differences in adult anxiety and depression, employing the extant databases of the Stirling County study and the urban replication survey used for her thesis work, the Queensbrook study. As in prior research, efforts to quantify population rates of disorders and their socio-environmental correlates will be wedded with essential methodological work in psychiatric assessment, and will have direct public health applications in service planning.