Prevalencia de trastornos mentales y uso de servicios: Resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Epidemiología Psiquiátrica en México

SUMMARY In 2001, the World Health Organization dedicated it’s Annual Health Report to Mental Health in an effort to put this problems at the core of the global health and development agendas. Along with this initiative, governments were invited to collaborate in the so called WHO 2000 initiative on Mental Health gathering information on the nature and extent of the problem, using the cross culturally validated Diagnostic Interview Schedule, WHOCIDI. This study forms part of this initiative. The paper describes the prevalence of psychiatric disorders, regional variations, socio demographic correlates and service utilization in the Mexican urban population between 18 and 65 years of age from the National Survey on Psychiatric Epidemiology (ENEP for its initials in spanish). It is the first time that such national data are gathered and published for Mexico. The sample design was probabilistic, stratified and multistage, one individual per household was selected. Information was gathered in two phases (information from the composition of the household and from the individual selected among the eligible members) (18-65 years of age), the target population was non institutionalized inhabitants of households in urban localities of more than 2,500 inhabitants, which represents 72% of the national population. The sample design is a strict probability selection scheme: 200 primary selection units (PSU) selected with probability proportional to a measure of size (PPS); census tract areas (AGEB) serving as PSU; 5 city blocks or listing areas selected with PPS within each selected PSU; 1 compact segment in the neighborhood of 9 housing units (hu’s) selected within each