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Evidence on workplace bullying and harassment (WBH) in the UK has not used probability-sample surveys with robust mental health assessments. This study aimed to profile the prevalence and nature of WBH in Engl...
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The Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adulthood
The majority of autism epidemiology research has focused on children and adolescents, rather than the adult population, within which the majority of autistic people reside. In this updated chapter, we discuss ...
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Open AccessReceiving threatening or obscene messages from a partner and mental health, self-harm and suicidality: results from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey
Threatening or obscene messaging is repeated, unwanted texts, emails, letters or cards experienced by the recipient as threatening or obscene, and causing fear, alarm or distress. It is rarely examined as an a...
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Open AccessA comparison of single and intersectional social identities associated with discrimination and mental health service use: data from the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey in England
Inequities in mental health service use (MHSU) and treatment are influenced by social stratification processes linked to socially contextualised interactions between individuals, organisations and institutions...
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Open AccessExplaining ethnic variations in adolescent mental health: a secondary analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study
The relationship between ethnicity and adolescent mental health was investigated using cross-sectional data from the nationally representative UK Millennium Cohort Study.
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Open AccessThe mental health of ex-prisoners: analysis of the 2014 English National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity
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 ...
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Religious discrimination and common mental disorders in England: a nationally representative population-based study
Although the impact of discrimination on mental health has been increasingly discussed, the effect of religious discrimination has not been examined systematically. We studied the prevalence of perceived relig...
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Open AccessPrevalence of psychosis in black ethnic minorities in Britain: analysis based on three national surveys
A considerable excess of psychosis in black ethnic minorities is apparent from clinical studies, in Britain, as in other developed economies with white majority populations. This excess is not so marked in pop...
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Erratum to: Feelings of loneliness among adults with mental disorder
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The Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adulthood
The work described in this chapter shows that it is possible to study autism among the adult population using similar methods to those used to study other mental disorders. It is vital that others undertake si...
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Ethnic inequalities in the use of health services for common mental disorders in England
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.
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Profiling disordered eating patterns and body mass index (BMI) in the English general population
Little national evidence exists on disordered eating patterns in the UK. This study examined the prevalence and nature of disordered eating patterns in the National Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007.
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Loneliness can affect people at any time and for some it can be an overwhelming feeling leading to negative thoughts and feelings. The current study, based on the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey in England,...
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Insomnia, worry, anxiety and depression as predictors of the occurrence and persistence of paranoid thinking
Our theoretical model proposes that insomnia, worry, and negative affect are important determinants of paranoid thinking. Anxiety produces anticipation of threat, depression increases the sense of vulnerabilit...
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Prevalence of Same-Sex Behavior and Orientation in England: Results from a National Survey
There are few data sources on the prevalence of same-sex sexual orientation in England. We aimed to measure the prevalence of same-sex orientation and behavior in the English general population and assess the ...
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Health of national service veterans: an analysis of a community-based sample using data from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey of England
In the context of increasing concerns for the health of UK armed forces veterans, this study aims to compare the prevalence of current mental, physical and behavioural difficulties in conscripted national serv...
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The British Mental Health Survey Programme: achievements and latest findings
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Psychotic symptoms in the general population of England
There is considerable evidence that incidence of schizophrenia and other psychoses varies across ethnic groups in the UK, with particularly high rates for people of African-Caribbean origin. Aims The aims of t...
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Psychotic symptoms in the general population of England
There is considerable evidence that incidence of schizophrenia and other psychoses varies across ethnic groups in the UK, with particularly high rates for people of African-Caribbean origin. Aims The aims of t...
