The table above shows the gender, age group, income circumstances and marital status in which mental disorders were more frequent during 12 months prior to the interview in 6 EU countries. It shows also the most common mental disorder occurring one time in life and in the 12 months prior to the interview. The numbers in parenthesis are the percentages of the corresponding disorders in the general population. Data were retrieved from EPREMeD report based on the ESEMeD/MHEDEA project.
|  ESEMeD is a cross-sectional study in which 21,425 non-institutionalised adults were interviewed across six European countries. The interviews were based on the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). The CIDI is a comprehensive, fully standardized interview that can be used to assess mental disorders according to the definitions and criteria of ICD-10 and the DMS-IV.
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