Peen J, Schoevers RA, Beekman AT, Dekker J. The current status of urban–rural differences
in psychiatric disorders. Objective: Reviews of urban–rural differences in psychiatric …

Background Understanding the prevalence of schizophrenia has important implications for
both health service planning and risk factor epidemiology. The aims of this review are to …

Objective.—To estimate the rates and patterns of major depression and bipolar disorder
based on cross-national epidemiologic surveys. Design and Setting.—Population-based …

Objective: Bipolar disorder (BD) is common in clinical psychiatric practice, and several
studies have estimated its prevalence to range from 0.5 to 5% in community-based samples …

The aim of this article is to report basic descriptive findings from new research on the
epidemiology of drug dependence syndromes, conducted as part of the National …

To examine cultural aspects in social anxiety and social anxiety disorder (SAD), we
reviewed the literature on the prevalence rates, expressions, and treatments of social …

In the last decade, there has been an increase in interest in the burden of chronic and
disabling health conditions that are not necessarily fatal, such as the mental disorders. This …

Rates of depression are compared by sex in epideniologic surveys conducted in the United
States, Canada, Germany and New Zealand. These surveys used similar sampling and …

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic validity of the Korean
version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-K) and its short form among elderly …

This volume presents the first published manual for cognitive-behavioral group therapy for
social phobia (CBGT), an empirically supported treatment approach that has been applied in …