Implementing the World Mental Health Survey Initiative in Portugal – rationale, design and fieldwork procedures
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Implementing the World Mental Health Survey Initiative in Portugal – rationale, design and fieldwork procedures
BACKGROUND The World Mental Health Survey Initiative was designed to evaluate the prevalence, the correlates, the impact and the treatment patterns of mental disorders. This paper describes the rationale and the methodological details regarding the implementation of the survey in Portugal, a country that still lacks representative epidemiological data about psychiatric disorders. METHODS The ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Mental Health Systems
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1752-4458
DOI: 10.1186/1752-4458-7-19