Journal article
The prevalence and age of onset of psychiatric disorders in Australian men
LJ Williams, FN Jacka, JA Pasco, CE Coulson, SE Quirk, AL Stuart, M Berk
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry | Published : 2016
Abstract
Objective: Given the burden of common psychiatric disorders and their consequent service and planning requirements, it is important to have a thorough knowledge of their distribution and characteristics in the population. Thus, we aimed to report the prevalence and age of onset of mood, anxiety and substance-use disorders in an age-stratified representative sample of Australian men. Method: Psychiatric disorders (mood, anxiety and substance-use disorders) were diagnosed utilising a structured clinical interview (Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition, Non-Patient Edition) for 961 men aged 24-98 years enrolled in the Geelong Oste..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The study was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia (projects 299831, 628582, 1026265, 1021345). L.J.W. is supported by a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (1064272). S.E.Q. is supported by a NHMRC Public Health and Health Services Research Postgraduate Scholarship (1076347). M.B. is supported by a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship (1059660). The funding providers played no role in the design or conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; or in preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.