Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Subject "psychology, clinical"

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How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment

Moffitt, Terrie; Caspi, Avshalom; Polanczyk, G. (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010)

Background. Most information about the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders comes from retrospective surveys, but how much these surveys have undercounted due to recall failure is unknown. We compared results from a ...
Prevalence and correlates of clinically significant depressive symptoms among elderly people in Sri Lanka: findings from a national survey

Malhotra, Rahul; Chan, Angelique; Ostbye, Truls (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010)

Background: Elderly Sri Lankans (11.2%, of the nation's population) have witnessed many years of ethnic conflict, a destructive tsunami and increasing emigration of young adults. However, very little is known about the ...