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Psychometric properties of alcohol screening tests in the emergency department in Argentina, Mexico and the United States
(2010)
The objective of this article is to report psychometric characteristics of the AUDIT, CAGE, RAPS4, and TWEAK and to compare them across three countries: Argentina, Mexico, and the United States which used a similar protocol ...
Body mass index and its relationship to mental disorders in the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey
(2010)
Objetivo. Evaluar la asociación entre el índice de masa corporal (IMC) y la prevalencia de trastornos psiquiátricos en adolescentes de la Ciudad de México. Material y métodos. 3005 adolescentes entre 12 y 17 años fueron ...
Suicidio y conductas suicidas en México: retrospectiva y situación actual
(2010)
Objetivo. Presentar una panorámica epidemiológica del suicidio consumado, de tendencia y actual, así como de la conducta suicida en el país. Material y métodos. Revisión de la mortalidad por suicidio de 1970 hasta 2007, y ...
The dimensionality of alcohol use disorders and alcohol consumption in a cross-national perspective
(2010)
Aims: To replicate the finding that there is a single dimension trait in alcohol use disorders and to test whether the usual 5+ drinks for men and 4+ drinks for women and other measures of alcohol consumption help to improve ...
The Relationship Between Self-Reported Drinking and BAC Level in Emergency Room Injury Cases: Is it a Straight Line?
(2010)
Background: While the validity of self-reported consumption based on blood alcohol concentration (BAC) has been found to be high in emergency room (ER) samples, little research exists on the estimated number of drinks ...
Childhood adversities as risk factors for onset and persistence of suicidal behaviour
(2010)
Background: Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, but the precise effect of childhood adversities as risk factors for the onset and persistence of suicidal behaviour (suicide ideation, plans and attempts) are not ...
Associations of serious mental illness with earnings: results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys
(2010)
Background: Burden-of-illness data, which are often used in setting healthcare policy-spending priorities, are unavailable for mental disorders in most countries. Aims: To examine one central aspect of illness burden, the ...
Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys
(2010)
Objective: Although suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, clinicians and researchers lack a data-driven method to assess the risk of suicide attempts. This study reports the results of an analysis of a large ...
Service use among Mexico City adolescents with suicidality
(2010)
Background: We report the lifetime and 12-month prevalence and associations of mental health treatment among Mexican adolescents with suicide-related outcomes (SROs; including ideation, plans, gestures and attempts). ...