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Theme
Organizations
Description of project
Years
Number of records or individuals for the cohort
Main investigator(s)
Project coordination
Project numbers
Publications
Theme
Mental Health – Psychiatry – Stirling County
Organization(s)
Psychiatric Epidemiology Unit Massachusetts General Hospital
Description of project
The purposes of this study were: a) to provide mortality information to help determine the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders, and b) to investigate predictor variables for mortality risk within a large longitudinal study in psychiatric epidemiology (with adult population samples taken in 1952, 1970, and 1992). The overall purpose for this study was to provide a better understanding of psychiatric disorders in order to improve treatment and reduce mortality. This cohort has been followed up earlier for mortality in the province of Nova Scotia.
The Stirling County Study now provides a longitudinal perspective of the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in an adult population in Atlantic Canada.
Years
Death years:
1968 – 1989a
1950 – 1992b
Number of records or individuals for the cohort
2,346 (both sexes)a - 1,098 men; 1,248 women
2,701 (both sexes)b - 1,287 men; 1,414 women
Main investigator(s)
Dr. Jane Murphy, Psychiatric Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Project coordination
Martha Faira and Maureen Carpenter,b Occupational and Environmental Health Research Section, Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada
Project number(s)
1900-075;a 1991-026b
Publications
Murphy JM, Monson RR, Olivier DC, Sobol AM, Leighton AH. Affective disorders and mortality. A general population study. Archives of General Psychiatry 1987; 44(5): 473-480.
Murphy JM, Monson RR, Olivier DC, Sobol AM, Pratt LA, Leighton AH. Mortality risk and psychiatric disorders. Results of a general physician survey. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 1989; 24(3): 134-142.
Horton NJ, Laird NM , Murphy JM, Monson RR, Sobel AM, Leighton A. Multiple informants: mortality associated with psychiatric disorders in the Stirling County Study. American Journal of Epidemiology 2001; 154(7): 649-656.
