Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-xxrs7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-29T01:31:01.567Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Low prevalence rates of common mental disorders in Japan: does it still hold true?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2015

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Commentary to Special Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Demyttenaere, K, Bruffaerts, R, Posada-Villa, J, Gasquet, I, Kovess, V, Lepine, JP, Angermeyer, MC, Bernert, S, de Girolamo, G, Morosini, P, Polidori, G, Kikkawa, T, Kawakami, N, Ono, Y, Takeshima, T, Uda, H, Karam, EG, Fayyad, JA, Karam, AN, Mneimneh, ZN, Medina-Mora, ME, Borges, G, Lara, C, de Graaf, R, Ormel, J, Gureje, O, Shen, Y, Huang, Y, Zhang, M, Alonso, J, Haro, JM, Vilagut, G, Bromet, EJ, Gluzman, S, Webb, C, Kessler, RC, Merikangas, KR, Anthony, JC, Von Korff, MR, Wang, PS, Brugha, TS, Aguilar-Gaxiola, S, Lee, S, Heeringa, S, Pennell, BE, Zaslavsky, AM, Ustun, TB, Chatterji, S, WHO World Mental Health Survey Consortium (2004). Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. JAMA 291, 25812590.Google Scholar
Ishikawa, H, Kawakami, N, Kessler, RC, the World Mental Health Japan Survey Collaborators (2015). Lifetime and 12-month prevalence, severity and unmet need for treatment of common mental disorders in Japan: results from the final dataset of World Mental Health Japan Survey. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. doi:10.1017/S2045796015000566.Google Scholar
Kato, TA, Shinfuku, N, Sartorius, N, Kanba, S (2011). Are Japan's hikikomori and depression in young people spreading abroad? Lancet 378, 1070.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kessler, RC, Haro, JM, Heeringa, SG, Pennell, BE, Ustun, TB (2006). The world health organization world mental health survey initiative. Epidemiologia e psichiatria sociale 15, 161166.Google Scholar
Ohto, H, Maeda, M, Yabe, H, Yasumura, S, Bromet, EE (2015). Suicide rates in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake in Japan. Lancet 385, 1727.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sakai, A, Ito, K, Takeuchi, K (2003). Reliability and varidity. In Kokoro No Kenkou Ni Kansuru Ekigaku Chousa No Jisshi Houhou Ni Kansuru Kenkyuu: Heisei 14 Nen Soukatsu-Buntan Houkokusho (A Study on Methods Used in Epidemiologic Studies on Mental Health-2002 Research Report) (ed. Kikkawa, T), pp. 107108. National Institute of Mental Health: Ichikawa.Google Scholar
Steel, Z, Marnane, C, Iranpour, C, Chey, T, Jackson, JW, Patel, V, Silove, D (2014). The global prevalence of common mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis 1980–2013. International Journal of Epidemiology 43, 476493.Google Scholar
Watts, J (2002). Public health experts concerned about ‘hikikomori’. Lancet 359, 1131.Google Scholar