Use of mental health services for anxiety, mood, and substance disorders in 17 countries in the WHO world mental health surveys.

By Philip S. Wang, S. Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, M. Angermeyer, G. Borges, E. Bromet, R. Bruffaerts, G. de Girolamo, R. de Graaf, O. Gureje and 12 more. The Lancet, 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Artificially intelligent chatbots in digital mental health interventions: a review (2021, background): “Worldwide, it is estimated that 70% of people with mental illness receive no formal treatment [5].”
The epidemiology of depression across cultures (2013, background): “The WMH surveys show that treatment rates are even lower in many other developed countries and consistently much lower in developing countries (129).”
Cross-National Analysis of the Associations among Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (2009, background): “Resources devoted to the treatment of mental disorders in general, and suicidal behavior in particular, currently are lacking in many developing countries [30,32,75].”
Toward ICD-11: Improving the Clinical Utility of WHO's International Classification of Mental Disorders (2010, background): “…knowledge of mental disorder symptoms, but given the extremely low rate of treatment contacts for most people with mental disorders throughout the world (Wang et al., 2007), in most settings, it is far more important to spend available time on treatment than on detailed diagnostic interviewing.”
The prevalence and correlates of binge eating disorder in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys (2013, neutral): “These are lower treatment rates than for many other mental disorders found in the WMH surveys (118).”
The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA): rationale, objectives and methods (2008, result): “…of Mental Disorders confirm that the proportion of diagnosed persons receiving mental health treatment as well as the quality of care received is well comparable to that in other high income countries such as the US, UK, Germany, Spain and Belgium (Wang et al., 2007; Alonso et al., 2004).”
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2015, background): “Previous WMH analyses have shown that this pattern of obtaining care for emotional problems in multiple service sectors in high-income countries is typical of people with a wide range of other DSM-IV disorders and is not unique to ADHD (Wang et al. 2007).”
The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development. (2018, background): “21 Furthermore, the quality of care received by many people, in particular those affected by severe mental disorders and disabilities, was poor in all countries and was often associated with abuses of their fundamental human rights (eg, forced restraints, physical and sexual violence, and torture;…”