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Psychiatric morbidity in primary public health care: a Nordic multicentre investigation. Part I: method and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity

1995; Wiley; Volume: 92; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09605.x

1600-0447

Per Fink, Jørgen Bjerggaard Jensen, Lars Borgqúist, John Ivar Brevik, Odd Steffen Dalgard, I. Sandager, Marianne Engberg, Lars Hansson, Marie‐Louise Holm, Matti Joukamaa, Hasse Karlsson, Ville Lehtinen, Per Nettelbladt, G. Nordström, Claes-Göran Stefansson, Lisbeth Uhrskov Sørensen, Povl Munk‐Jørgensen,

Health, psychology, and well-being

The prevalence of mental illness in five different Scandinavian primary care populations was investigated in this study. Patients consecutively consulting their general practitioner a particular week‐day were included in the study. Initially the SCL‐25 was applied and next the high scores and a sample of the low scores were interviewed by the PSE. In the analysis the screening procedure was first validated. The internal validity of the SCL was tested by means of Rasch latent structure analysis and the external validity tested by ROC/QROC analysis. Based on this, a short 8–item version of the SCL was developed. The prevalence of mental illness in all centres was 0.26 with a minimum of 0.14 in Nacka and a maximum of 0.34 in Turku.