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- Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Clinical Epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Assessment, Formulation and Diagnosis
- Chapter 3.1 Clinical Features of Depressive Disorders
- Chapter 3.2 Causes of Depression
- Chapter 3.3 Drug and Physical Treatments of Depression
- Chapter 3.4 Psychological and Social Treatment of Depression
- Chapter 4.1 Bipolar Disorder
- Chapter 4.2 Bipolar Disorder
- Chapter 5.1 Schizophrenia and Other Primary Psychoses
- Chapter 5.2 Causes and Outcome of Psychosis
- Chapter 5.3 Drug Treatment of the Psychoses
- Chapter 5.4 Psychosocial Management of Psychosis
- Chapter 6.1 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 6.2 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Chapter 6.3 Specific Phobias
- Chapter 6.4 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- Chapter 6.5 Functional Neurological Disorder
- Chapter 6.6 Bodily Distress Disorder, Chronic Pain and Factitious Disorders
- Chapter 7.1 Clinical Features and Implications of New Classification of Personality Disorders
- Chapter 7.2 Clinical Approaches to Personality Disorder (AKA Complex Emotional Needs)
- Chapter 7.3 Antisocial and Other Personality Disorders, Impulse Control Disorders, and Non-substance Addictive Disorders
- Chapter 8 Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Chapter 9 Autism
- Chapter 10 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Chapter 11 Sleep Disorders and Psychiatry
- Chapter 12 Eating Disorders
- Chapter 13 Perinatal Psychiatry
- Chapter 14 Substance Use Disorders
- Chapter 15 Suicide and Self Harm
- Chapter 16 Physical Health Care
- Chapter 17 Culture, Mental Health and Mental Illnesses
- Chapter 18 Psychiatry in Primary Care
- Chapter 19 Psychiatry in the General Hospital
- Chapter 20 Adult Mental Health Services
- Index
- References
Chapter 1 - Clinical Epidemiology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2024
- Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Clinical Epidemiology
- Chapter 2 Assessment, Formulation and Diagnosis
- Chapter 3.1 Clinical Features of Depressive Disorders
- Chapter 3.2 Causes of Depression
- Chapter 3.3 Drug and Physical Treatments of Depression
- Chapter 3.4 Psychological and Social Treatment of Depression
- Chapter 4.1 Bipolar Disorder
- Chapter 4.2 Bipolar Disorder
- Chapter 5.1 Schizophrenia and Other Primary Psychoses
- Chapter 5.2 Causes and Outcome of Psychosis
- Chapter 5.3 Drug Treatment of the Psychoses
- Chapter 5.4 Psychosocial Management of Psychosis
- Chapter 6.1 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 6.2 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Chapter 6.3 Specific Phobias
- Chapter 6.4 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
- Chapter 6.5 Functional Neurological Disorder
- Chapter 6.6 Bodily Distress Disorder, Chronic Pain and Factitious Disorders
- Chapter 7.1 Clinical Features and Implications of New Classification of Personality Disorders
- Chapter 7.2 Clinical Approaches to Personality Disorder (AKA Complex Emotional Needs)
- Chapter 7.3 Antisocial and Other Personality Disorders, Impulse Control Disorders, and Non-substance Addictive Disorders
- Chapter 8 Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Chapter 9 Autism
- Chapter 10 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Chapter 11 Sleep Disorders and Psychiatry
- Chapter 12 Eating Disorders
- Chapter 13 Perinatal Psychiatry
- Chapter 14 Substance Use Disorders
- Chapter 15 Suicide and Self Harm
- Chapter 16 Physical Health Care
- Chapter 17 Culture, Mental Health and Mental Illnesses
- Chapter 18 Psychiatry in Primary Care
- Chapter 19 Psychiatry in the General Hospital
- Chapter 20 Adult Mental Health Services
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter gives an introduction to key concepts in epidemiology for the clinician, student, trainee or early career researcher interested in psychiatry and mental health. Following a brief introduction to the history of epidemiology, we provide a comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to key epidemiological concepts and how these apply to psychiatry and mental health. We introduce the major observational (cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, ecological) and experimental (randomised controlled trial) designs used in epidemiology, their strengths and limitations and specific issues for their use in psychiatry. We also cover measures of disease frequency (incidence, prevalence), measures of effect (risk, rate and odds ratios) and measures of impact (population attributable risk). Our chapter then provides a comprehensive introduction to traditional and contemporary approaches to understanding the critical issue of causation, illustrated via the use of causal diagrams known as Directed Acyclic Graphs. Throughout, we use accessible examples from published research and hypothetical worked examples to consolidate the reader’s knowledge about key methods in psychiatric epidemiology.
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- Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry , pp. 6 - 29Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024