The figure above shows the probability of visiting a health care professional during the first year after the onset of major depression in 6 EU countries. Health care professional can be either a general practitioner or a mental health specialist. 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 DSM-IV .
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