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Two plus two equals three? Do we need to rethink lifetime prevalence?

A commentary on ‘How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment’ by Moffitt et al. (2009)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2009

E. Susser  and
P. E. Shrout
E. Susser*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA
P. E. Shrout
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, New York University, USA
*
*Address for correspondence: E. Susser, M.D., Dr.P.H., Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Office 1030, 722 W. 168th St, New York, NY, 10032, USA. (Email: ess8@columbia.edu)
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Keywords

Lifetime prevalencemental disordersmental healthpsychiatric epidemiology
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 40 , Issue 6 , June 2010 , pp. 895 - 897
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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