The mental health of ex-prisoners: analysis of the 2014 English National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity.

Purpose: Prisoners experience extremely high rates of psychiatric disturbance. However, ex-prisoners have never previously been identified in representative population surveys to establish how far this excess persists after release. Our purpose was to provide the first community-based estimate of ex-prisoners' mental health in England using the data from the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS).

The Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adult Psychiatric Inpatients: A Systematic Review.

Background: Whilst the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in adults within the community setting is well-established, less is known about the prevalence among adults based within a psychiatric inpatient setting.

Objective: To conduct a systematic literature review pertaining to the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders among the adult psychiatric inpatient population.

Method: Eligibility criteria included: (a) investigation of the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (b) adult psychiatric inpatient study population (c) published in English language.

Religion, spirituality and mental health: results from a national study of English households.

Background: Religious participation or belief may predict better mental health but most research is American and measures of spirituality are often conflated with well-being.

Aims: To examine associations between a spiritual or religious understanding of life and psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses.

Method: We analysed data collected from interviews with 7403 people who participated in the third National Psychiatric Morbidity Study in England.

Ethnic inequalities in the use of health services for common mental disorders in England.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether minority ethnic people were less likely to receive treatment for mental health problems than the white population were, controlling for symptom severity.

Method: We analysed data from 23,917 participants in the 1993, 2000 and 2007 National Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys. Survey response rates were 79, 69 and 57 %, respectively.

An estimate of the veteran population in England: based on data from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey.

Background: The health and well-being of military veterans has recently generated much media and political interest. Estimating the current and future size of the veteran population is important to the planning and allocation of veteran support services.

Methods: Data from a 2007 nationally representative residential survey of England (the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey) were extrapolated to the whole population to estimate the number of veterans currently residing in private households in England.

A comment on the yield from national surveys of mental health.

Henderson and Andrews have written a timely paper to examine the yield from national surveys, and pose questions of value for money, survey methods, delineation of pathology by categorical boundaries rather than dimensions, and breadth of risk factors examined. We would like to address the points they raise, exemplified by the purposes (Jenkins , 1997) and yield of the British survey programme.

Comorbid painful physical symptoms and depression: prevalence, work loss, and help seeking.

Background: Painful physical symptoms (PPS) are frequent in patients with Major Depressive Episode (MDE). Here, the 12-month prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of PPS were examined taking into account somatic comorbidity; quantitative and qualitative aspects of MDE with or without PPS were investigated as well as their impact on work loss days (WLD). Finally, help seeking and delay in help seeking were explored.

Social position and the common mental disorders with disability: estimates from the National Psychiatric Survey of Great Britain.

Background: Published studies linking the common mental disorders with social disadvantage lack basic comparability. This project aimed to estimate effect sizes and independence of social position markers as risk factors for common mental disorders. Disorders with disability were examined to identify groups with high clinical and policy priority.