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Disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders across the world
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Background: Advocates of expanded mental health treatment assert that mental disorders are as disabling as physical disorders, but little evidence supports this assertion. Aims: To establish the disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders in high-income and low- and middle-income countries. Method: Community epidemiological surveys were administered in 15 countries through the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. Results: Respondents in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries attributed higher disability to mental disorders than to the commonly occurring physical disorders included in the surveys. This pattern held for all disorders and also for treated disorders. Disaggregation showed that the higher disability of mental than physical disorders was limited to disability in social and personal role functioning, whereas disability in productive role functioning was generally comparable for mental and physical disorders. Conclusions: Despite often higher disability, mental disorders are under-treated compared with physical disorders in both high-income and in low- and middle-income countries.
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“This gap is even greater for people with low socio-economic status (SES) and those living in low-income countries (Steele et al. 2007; Ormel et al. 2008) even adjusting for disorder severity (Mojtabai, 2010; Andrade et al. 2014).”
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“MDE was included in a number of these studies and the results typically showed that musculoskeletal disorders and MDE were associated with the highest levels of disability at the individual level among all commonly occurring disorders assessed. The most compelling study of this sort outside the US was based on fifteen national surveys carried out as part of the WMH surveys.82 Disorder-specific dis”
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“Second, even if depression is more a consequence than a cause of chronic physical disorders, as it appears to be for some disorders, comorbid depression is often associated with a worse course of the physical disorder. 187-190”
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“Mental disorders are a significant contributor to disability in the general population (Ormel et al., 2008; Verger, Guagliardo, Gilbert, Rouillon, & Kovess-Masfetty, 2010).”
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“Severity of health-related role impairment during the past 12 months was assessed using an adapted version of the Sheehan Disability Scale (Leon, Olfson, Portera, Farber, & Sheehan, 1997; Ormel et al., 2008).”
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“Our results are also in line with studies of adults in the general population, where individuals with mental disorders reported severe role impairment more frequently than those with physical conditions, due to a higher association with social and personal relationships (Ormel et al., 2008).”
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“The combination of a high prevalence and high impact makes them a major source of role impairment among first year university students (Ormel et al., 2008; Verger et al., 2010).”
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“But bias should be small given that impairment of mental disorders as measured by the SDS tends to be higher than that of physical conditions (Ormel et al., 2008).”
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- Ormel, J., Petukhova, M., Chatterji, S., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Alonso, J., Angermeyer, M. C., Bromet, E. J., Burger, H., Demyttenaere, K., de Girolamo, G., Haro, J. M., Hwang, I., Karam, E., Kawakami, N., Lépine, J. P., Medina-Mora, M. E., Posada-Villa, J., Sampson, N., Scott, K., Üstün, T. B., Von Korff, M., Williams, D. R., Zhang, M., & Kessler, R. C.
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- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Harvard University (US)
- World Health Organization (CH)
- Leipzig University (DE)
- Stony Brook University (US)
- Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven (BE)
- Saint George Hospital (LB)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca (CO)
- University of Otago (NZ)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Shanghai Mental Health Center (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Kessler, Ronald C.
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- Venue
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 2008-05
- Volume
- 192
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 368-375
- ISSN
- 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-1465
- PMC
- PMC2681238
- OpenAlex
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- 389
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- 34.34
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- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (044780, Grant 044780)
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (R01 DA016558, R13-MH066849)
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- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- U.S. Public Health Service (R01 069864, HHSN 271200700030C)
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- Pan American Health Organization
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (FIS 00/0028)
- Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya
- National Institute of Mental Health (R13-MH-066849, R0 1-MH61905, R01‐MH070884, MH61905, U01-MH-60220, R01MH061905, R01MH059575, MH60220, MH070884, HHSN271200700030C, MH069864, U13MH066849, MH066849, U01MH060220, R01‐MH069864)
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- disability, mental illness, physical disorders, psychotherapy, undertreatment, role functioning, social functioning, low- and middle-income countries, high-income countries, World Mental Health Survey Initiative
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Mental Disorders, Chronic Disease, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Epidemiologic Methods, Health Services Accessibility, Health Status, Humans, Global Health, Cost of Illness
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