Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program Sites 1-4, 1979-1983 with National Death Index Data through 2007 [electronic resource] / William Eaton

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Data file
Language
English
Εdition
2017-10-17
Published/​Created
Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017
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ICPSR ; 36621 [More in this series]
Restrictions note
Available. This study is freely available to the general public.
Summary note
The Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) program of research was initiated in response to the 1977 report of the President's Commission on Mental Health. The purpose was to collect data on the prevalence and incidence of mental disorders and on the use of and need for services by the mentally ill. Independent research teams at five universities (Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University, Duke University, and University of California at Los Angeles), in collaboration with the National Institute for Mental Health, conducted the studies with a core of common questions and sample characteristics. The sites were areas that had previously been designated as Community Mental Health Center catchment areas: New Haven, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland, St. Louis, Missouri, Durham, North Carolina, and Los Angeles, California. Each site sampled over 3,000 community residents and 500 residents of institutions, yielding 20,861 respondents overall. The longitudinal ECA design incorporated two waves of personal interviews administered one year apart and a brief telephone interview in between (for the household sample). The diagnostic interview used in the ECA was the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), Version III (with the exception of the Yale Wave I survey, which used Version II). Diagnoses were categorized according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd Edition (DSM-III). Diagnoses derived from the DIS include manic episode, dysthymia, bipolar disorder, single episode major depression, recurrent major depression, atypical bipolar disorder, alcohol abuse or dependence, drug abuse or dependence, schizophrenia, schizophreniform, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobia, somatization, panic, antisocial personality, and anorexia nervosa. The DIS uses the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), which measures cognitive functioning, as an indirect measure of the DSM-III Organic Mental Disorders. In the ECA survey, this diagnosis is called cognitive impairment. This collection features data from 17,327 participants across 2,005 variables. Data from the Los Angeles, California, Catchment (UCLA) are not included. Baseline data (Wave 1) and Wave 2 data were linked to the National Death Index through 2007, which includes primary and contributing causes of death, International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes, and nature of injury variables.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36621
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Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2017-10-23.
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Geographic coverage
  • Baltimore
  • Connecticut
  • Durham
  • Maryland
  • Missouri
  • New Haven
  • North Carolina
  • St. Louis
  • United States
Funding information
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health R01-MH47447
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Mode of access: Intranet.
Methodology note
Persons aged 18 and older residing in catchment areas centralized to New Haven, Connecticut (Yale), Baltimore, Maryland (Johns Hopkins), St. Louis, Missouri (Washington University), and Durham, North Carolina (Duke).
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