title: The Hong Kong mental morbidity survey: background and study design.
abstract: Mental disorders are highly prevalent conditions with immense disease burden. To inform health and social services policy formulation, local psychiatric epidemiological data are required. The Hong Kong Mental Morbidity Survey is a 3-year population-based study in which 5700 community-dwelling Chinese adults aged between 16 and 75 years were interviewed with the aim of evaluating the prevalence, co-morbidity, functional impairment, physical morbidity, and social determinants of significant mental disorders in the population. This paper describes the background and design of the survey, and is the first territory-wide psychiatric epidemiological study in Hong Kong.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: L C W
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: C S M
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: E Y H
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Kowloon Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: R M K
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: E H M
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.affiliation: Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: E F C
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Sham
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: H F K
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.affiliation: Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Os
authors.affiliation: Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: J T F
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.affiliation: Academic Unit of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Bristol, England.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, London, England.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bebbington
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D006723:Hong Kong / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Asian continental ancestry group; Health surveys; Mental disorders/epidemiology