Prevalence of Serious Psychiatric Morbidity in Attenders and Nonattenders to a Health Survey of a General Population : The Tromso Health Study

• Published in: American Journal of Epidemiology
• Main Authors: Hansen, Vidje, Jacobsen, Bjarne K., Arnesen, Egil
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2001
• Subjects: PRACTICE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY; Norway; Tromso; Tromsø
• Online Access: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/154/10/891; https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/154.10.891

The objective was to study the effect of serious psychiatric disorders on participation in a general health population study. This was done by linking the records of the Second Tromsø Health Study to the case register of a mental hospital. The participants in the Second Tromsø Health Study were 21,4...