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Study: A profile of clinical depression in Canada

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The Daily


Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The study, "A profile of clinical depression in Canada," is the first of a planned series of reports summarizing results of research conducted in Statistics Canada's Research Data Centres (RDC) on issues of broad social interest. This inaugural study discusses measures of prevalence, risk factors, health service use and treatment of major depression — a condition that affects 1 in 50 Canadians at any moment in time, 1 in 20 in the course of a year and 1 in 10 in their lifetime.

Designed for non-specialist readers, the study discusses findings from a range of papers published in scientific journals using Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey and the Canadian Community Health Survey.

The study, written by Scott Patten of the University of Calgary and Heather Juby of the RDC Network, is available in English only at (www.ciqss.umontreal.ca/rdcsynthesis/).

The RDC program is part of an initiative by Statistics Canada, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research and university consortia to help strengthen Canada's social research capacity and to support the policy research community.

Definitions, data sources and methods: survey numbers, including related surveys, 3225 and 3226.

For more information about the study, contact Scott Patten (403-220-8752; patten@ucalgary.ca), University of Calgary. French media may contact Heather Juby (514-343-2090, ext. 8), Research Data Centres.

For more information about the Research Data Centres program, contact Gustave Goldmann (613-951-1472), Statistics Canada.