Global variation in the prevalence and incidence of major depressive disorder: a systematic review of the epidemiological literature

By A. Ferrari, Adele Somerville, A. Baxter, Rosana E Norman, S. Patten, Theo Vos, H. Whiteford. Psychological Medicine, 2012

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacology, Social Psychology

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Gender Differences in Depression in Representative National Samples: Meta-Analyses of Diagnoses and Symptoms (2017, positive): “Recent estimates of the global 12-month prevalence of major depressive disorder were 5.8% in women and 3.5% in men (Ferrari et al., 2013).”
Prevalence of depression during the COVID-19 outbreak: A meta-analysis of community-based studies (2020, positive): “40--5%) in 2010, when accounting for methodological differences (Ferrari et al., 2013).”
Social Networking Sites, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review (2016, neutral): “3%, respectively, in the global population [9,10].”
A heavy burden on young minds: the global burden of mental and substance use disorders in children and youth (2014, methodology): “…et al. 2013), for ‘childhood’ mental disorders such as conduct disorder and ADHD (Erskine et al. 2013), and for LMICs (Degenhardt et al. 2011; Ferrari et al. 2011, 2013b; Baxter et al. 2013; Charlson et al. 2013; Erskine et al. 2013) which often have the largest proportions of individuals…”
Burden of Depressive Disorders by Country, Sex, Age, and Year: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (2013, background): “Epidemiological inputs Systematic review of the literature [1,3].”
Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data (2016, background): “Depression has emerged as the leading mental health condition of interest among computational social scientists (712), as it is a relatively common mental disorder (16) and influences a range of behaviors and patterns of communication (17).”
YOGA FOR DEPRESSION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META‐ANALYSIS (2013, background): “0%,[1] major depressive disorder is a common and disabling mental disorder.”
A systematic review and meta-regression of the prevalence and incidence of perinatal depression. (2017, methodology): “As the distribution of prevalence estimates in the original dataset was positively skewed, all estimates were transformed using a natural log for the meta-regression in order to meet the parametric assumption of normality (Ferrari et al., 2013c; Tabachnick and Fidell, 2007).”
Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): An update (2014–2018) (2019, positive): “In addition, the risk of relapse (up to 85% of the cases) or chronicization (about 20% of the cases) must also be considered (Ferrari et al., 2013).”
The global prevalence of common mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis 1980-2013. (2014, methodology): “We followed the WHO burden of disease group by integrating point and period prevalence estimates.(27) In the current analysis we have given primacy to 12-month period prevalence over point prevalence when more than one index was provided.”