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The NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program

Historical Context, Major Objectives, and Study Population Characteristics

Darrel A. Regier, MD, MPH; Jerome K. Myers, PhD; Morton Kramer, ScD; Lee N. Robins, PhD; Dan G. Blazer, MD, PhD; Richard L. Hough, PhD; William W. Eaton, PhD; Ben Z. Locke, MSPH

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1984;41(10):934-941.


Abstract

• The National Institute of Mental Health multisite Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) program is described in the context of four previous psychiatric epidemiologic surveys that Included a combined total of 4,000 subjects from Stirling County, the Baltimore Morbidity Study, Midtown Manhattan, and the New Haven third-wave survey. The ECA program is distinguished by its sample size of at least 3,500 subjects per site (about 20,000 total); the focus on Diagnostic interview Schedule-defined DSM-III mental disorders; the one-year reinterview-based longitudinal design to obtain incidence and service use data; the linkage of epidemiologic and health service use data; and the replication of design and method in multiple sites. Demographic characteristics of community and sample populations are provided for New Haven, Conn, Baltimore, and St Louis.



Author Affiliations

From the Center for Epidemiologic Studies (Dr Eaton and Mr Locke), the Division of Biometry and Epidemiology (Dr Regier), the National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Md; the Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn (Dr Myers); the Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Dr Kramer); the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis (Dr Robins); the Department of Psychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC (Dr Blazer); and the Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA (Dr Hough).


Footnotes

Accepted for publication April 16, 1984.

Read before the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Montreal, Nov 17, 1982.

Reprint requests to Division of Biometry and Epidemiology, NIMH, Room 18C-26, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (Dr Regier).



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