Twelve-month prevalence, persistence, severity, and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in Qatar's national mental health study
| Author | Khaled, Salma M. |
| Author | Al-Thani, Sheik Mohammed |
| Author | Sampson, Nancy A. |
| Author | Kessler, Ronald C. |
| Author | Woodruff, Peter W. |
| Author | Alabdulla, Majid |
| Available date | 2025-01-23T07:03:13Z |
| Publication Date | 2024 |
| Publication Name | International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research |
| Resource | Scopus |
| Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.2012 |
| ISSN | 10498931 |
| Abstract | Objectives To estimate 12-month prevalence, persistence, severity, and treatment of mental disorders and socio-demographic correlates in Qatar. Methods We conducted the first national population-based telephone survey of Arab adults between 2019 and 2022 using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview and estimated 12-month DSM-5 mood and anxiety disorders and their persistence (the proportion of lifetime cases who continue to meet 12-month criteria). Results The 12-month prevalence of any disorder was 21.1% (10.4% mild, 38.7% moderate, and 50.9% severe) and was associated with: younger age, female, previously married, and with persistence of any disorder. Persistence was 74.7% (64.0% mood and 75.6% anxiety) and was significantly associated with secondary education or lower. Minimally adequate treatment received among those with any 12-month mental disorder was 10.6% (74.6% in healthcare and 64.6% non-healthcare sectors). Severity and the number of disorders significantly associated with each other and with treatment received (χ 2 = 7.24, p = 0.027) including adequate treatment within the mental health specialty sector (χ 2 = 21.42, p < 0.001). Conclusions Multimorbidity and sociodemographics were associated with 12-month mental disorder. Treatment adequacy in Qatar are comparable to high-income countries. Low treatment contact indicate need for population-wide mental health literacy programes in addition to more accessible and effective mental health services. |
| Sponsor | This survey was conducted by the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) of Qatar University, as one of the component of the World Mental Health study in Qatar. Authors of this study would like to extend their gratitude to: the director of SESRI (Dr. Kaltham Al-Ghanim), the research team at SESRI (Dr. Abdoulaye Diop, Dr. Le Trung Kien, Marwa Al-Assi, Iman Amro, Amal Ali, Lina Bader, Ikram Boukhelif, Veena Davis, Engi El-Maghraby, Catalina Petcu, Yossra Sayed, Hamdeh Shamsi); the study's translation and adaptation team (Dr. Abdellatif Sellami, Dr. Suhad Daher-Nashif, Nada Mohamed Khalil Rayan, Arij Yehya, Zaher Ahmed Askar, and Ghefari Elsayed); the Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) Team at SESRI (John Lee Pratt Holmes, Abdelrahman Rahmany, CATI Interviewers), and the Information Technology (IT) department at SESRI (Mr. Anis Miladi, Mr. Isam Abdelhameed, Mr. Ayman Alkahlout, Ms. Rihab Souai, Ms. Ikram Boukhelif, and Ms. Nafisa Hamza). We also like to extend our gratitude to: Ian Tulley and Mahmoud Al-Raisi from the Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Service, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar; Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Policy, USA (Edward Chiu, Marrena Lindberg); and University of Michigan, Institute of Social Research, USA(Sarah Broumand, Jennifer Kelley, Gina-Qian Cheung, and Zeina Mneimneh). This study was funded by Hamad Medical Corporation through Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust \u2013 Award number: 0XS0002. Qatar University Open Access publishing facilitated by the Qatar National Library, as part of the Wiley - Qatar National Library agreement. |
| Language | en |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Subject | 12-month prevalence anxiety disorder mood disorder treatment adequacy |
| Type | Article |
| Pagination | e2012 |
| Volume Number | 33 |
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