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Mental health surveys

Surveys about the mental health of certain groups; children, adolescents, carers, adults, older people, and on attitudes to mental health amongst the general population.

Psychiatric morbidity surveys: mental health of children & adolescents

Mental health of children and young people in Great Britain, 2004

This report of a survey carried out by the Office of National Statistics for the Department of Health and the Scottish Executive describes the prevalence of mental disorders among 5- to 16-year olds in 2004 and notes any changes since the previous survey in 1999. It provides profiles of children in each of the main disorder categories, examines the characteristics of children with multiple disorders and presents a selection of analyses for Scotland.

Persistence, onset, risk factors and outcomes of childhood mental disorders

Report based on the analysis of a three-year follow-up of the 1999 National Survey of the mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain, commissioned by the Department of Health, the Department of Education and Skills and the Scottish Executive Health Department.

The mental health of young people looked after by local authorities in England

This report presents data from the first national survey of the mental health of young people lookedafter by local authorities in England. Fieldwork for the survey took place between October 2001 and June 2002.

Children and adolescents who try to harm, hurt or kill themselves

The national survey of the mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain included a wide range of emotional, behavioural and hyperkinetic disorders. The primary purpose of this further analysis is to look in more detail at children and adolescents who had ever attempted to harm, hurt or kill themselves.

The mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain

The primary purpose of the survey, carried out in 1999, was to produce prevalence rates of the three main childhood mental disorders: conduct disorder, hyperactivity and emotional disorders (and their comorbidity).

Psychiatric morbidity surveys: mental health of adults

Better or worse: a longitudinal study of the mental health of adults living in private households in Great Britain

The report describes a longitudinal study based on two surveys carried out by the Office for National Statistics among adults living in private households in Great Britain. The first survey covered adults aged 16 to 74 and was carried out in 2000. The second survey followed up a proportion of the sample from the original survey approximately 18 months later in 2001.

The mental health of older people

This report is one of a series of topic reports from the 2000 survey. The report focuses on the mental health of older people, those aged 60-74.

Psychiatric morbidity: tobacco, alcohol and drug use and mental health

This report is based on a survey of psychiatric morbidity among adults aged 16 to 74 living in private households in Great Britain carried out in 2000. It looks at tobacco, alcohol and other drug use and dependence and their relationship to psychiatric morbidity.

Adults with a psychotic disorder living in private households, 2002

This report presents findings relating to the circumstances of people with psychosis living in the community from a survey of psychiatric morbidity among adults aged 16 to 74 living in private households in Great Britain.

The social and economic circumstances of adults with mental disorders

The report focuses mainly on the extent to which people with different types of mental disorder (neuroses, psychoses, alcohol and drug dependence) differ from those without a disorder on: educational attainment, economic activity, financial circumstances, housing, activities of daily living, the experience of stressful events and social functioning.

Non-fatal suicidal behaviour among adults aged 16 to 74 in Great Britain

This report presents the analysis of the data on suicidal thoughts and attempts collected in the 2000 ONS survey of psychiatric morbidity among adults in Great Britain

Psychiatric morbidity among adults living in private households, 2000

This report presents the summary of findings of a survey of psychiatric morbidity among adults aged 16 to 74 living in private households in Great Britain

Psychiatric morbidity among young offenders in England and Wales

This report presents information on the mental health of young offenders from a survey of psychiatric morbidity among prisoners aged 16-64 in England and Wales. The report brings together the data on prevalence of mental disorders among young offenders from the main report of the 1997 survey on psychiatric morbidity among prisoners in England and Wales.

Psychiatric morbidity among prisoners in England and Wales

The Office of National Statistics conducted a survey in 1997 to collect baseline data on the mental health of male and female, remand and sentenced prisoners in order to inform general policy decisions.

Mental health of carers

Report of a survey carried out by Social Survey Division of the Office for National Statistics on behalf on the Department of Health.

Attitudes to mental illness

Since March 1993, the Department of Health has placed a set of questions on the RSGB Omnibus. From 1993 to 1997 the questions were asked on an annual basis, thereafter they have been asked every third year. The surveys serve as a tracking mechanism, and in each report, the most recent results are compared with those from the earlier surveys.

Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness Rates (EMPIRIC)

The survey was carried out by the Joint Health Surveys Unit of the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and University College, London among ethnic minority adults aged 16-74 living in England to make comparisons with the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in the general population.

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