Prevalence of mental disorder in an urban population in central Sweden.
The principal reason for this epidemiological study was the lack of psychiatric morbidity studies in a predominantly urban population, by psychiatrists in direct interviews. The psychiatric examination, covering 1970-71, included a representative selection of 2,283 persons, 18-65 years old from "former" Stockholm County, and the 12-month prevalence of mental disorders was measured. The total of non-participants was 12%. Forty-seven percent had a psychiatric diagnosis - significantly more women (54%) than men (40%). Excluding the psychosomatic diagnoses, 31% of the population received a psychiatric diagnosis, which agrees closely with other contemporary studies of mental disorder in the Nordic countries. The primary diagnoses were: neuroses 26%, psychosomatic diagnoses 16%, schizophrenic/paranoid conditions or other psychoses 0.6%, affective disorders 0.2%, psychoorganic syndromes 1.2%, psychopathy 0.2%, character neurosis 1%, drug dependence 0.2% (as a primary or a secondary diagnosis 0.6%), alcoholism 1.4% (as a primary or a secondary diagnosis 3.1%) and mental retardation 0.4% (as a primary or a secondary diagnosis 0.8%).
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000453:epidemiology; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013548:Sweden; D014504:Urban Health