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Ronald C Kessler

McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Verified email at hcp.med.harvard.edu
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Posttraumatic stress disorder: the burden to the individual and to society

RC Kessler - Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2000 - psychiatrist.com
… It is noteworthy that this study used the DSM-III-R criteria to define an event as traumatic.
The prevalence of trauma exposure increases when DSM-IV criteria are used as shown below. …

Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literature

RC Kessler, GP Amminger… - Current opinion in …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
First onset of mental disorders usually occur in childhood or adolescence, although treatment
typically does not occur until a number of years later. Although interventions with early …

The descriptive epidemiology of commonly occurring mental disorders in the United States

RC Kessler, PS Wang - Annu. Rev. Public Health, 2008 - annualreviews.org
… come from the NCS-R. Because the remainder of this review presents an overview of
NCS-R findings, we now discuss the NCS-R design. The NCS-R is a nationally representative …

Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

RC Kessler, P Berglund, O Demler, R Jin… - Archives of general …, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
Context Little is known about lifetime prevalence or age of onset ofDSM-IVdisorders. Objective
To estimate lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions ofDSM-IVdisorders in the …

The epidemiology of major depressive disorder: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R)

RC Kessler, P Berglund, O Demler, R Jin, D Koretz… - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
ContextUncertainties exist about prevalence and correlates of major depressive disorder (MDD).ObjectiveTo
present nationally representative data on prevalence and correlates of …

Lifetime and 12-month prevalence of DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in the United States: results from the National Comorbidity Survey

RC Kessler, KA McGonagle, S Zhao… - Archives of general …, 1994 - jamanetwork.com
Background: This study presents estimates of lifetime and 12-month prevalence of 14DSM-III-Rpsychiatric
disorders from the National Comorbidity Survey, the first survey to administer …

Prevalence, severity, and comorbidity of 12-month DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

RC Kessler, WT Chiu, O Demler… - Archives of general …, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
… These surveys are using the same diagnostic instrument as the NCS-R and are covering
the major groups of non-English speakers in the US population. The NCS-R respondents were …

[HTML][HTML] Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative

RC Kessler, M Angermeyer, JC Anthony… - World …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Data are presented on the lifetime prevalence, projected lifetime risk, and age-of-onset
distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s World Mental Health (…

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders, 1990 to 2003

RC Kessler, O Demler, RG Frank… - … England Journal of …, 2005 - Mass Medical Soc
R and of the DSM-IV differ too greatly to justify direct comparisons of prevalence in the data
from the NCS and NCS-R… that was developed for the NCS-R and then applied (imputed) to …

The global burden of mental disorders: an update from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys

RC Kessler, S Aguilar-Gaxiola, J Alonso… - Epidemiology and …, 2009 - cambridge.org
… Portions of this paper appeared previously in Kessler, RC, Ruscio, AM, Shear, K., Wittchen,
… & Kessler R. (2008). Mental disorders among persons with arthritis: results from the World …