Lifetime Incidence and Socio-economic Implications of Mental Illness

Mental Health Services in the Capital Region, Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Illness

Treatments: Other: Not relevant

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05415189

Lifetime incidence

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the present study is to estimate the lifetime incidence of any mental disorder in a nationwide population-based register linkage study for the Danish population and to estimate the influence on socio-economic functioning.

Full description

The purpose of the present study is to estimate the lifetime incidence of any mental disorder in a nationwide population-based register linkage study for the Danish population in total and according to gender and to estimate the influence on socio-economic functioning. The investigaters hypothesised that the lifetime incidence of any mental disorder is substantially higher than hitherto believed.

Enrollment: 1,500,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 110 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The study was based on a randomly selected 1,500,000 sample of all persons who were registered in Statistics Denmark on the 1st of January 1995.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

1,500,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients

Description:

Patients with mental illness according to Danish health registers

Treatment:

Other: Not relevant

Control individuals from the general population

Description:

Control individuals from the general population matched according to the data of diagnosis/ psychotropic medication, year of birth, sex and calendar year.

Treatment:

Other: Not relevant