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## Background: A previous estimate of the burden of schizophrenia in thailand relied on epidemiological estimates from elsewhere. the aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence and disease burden of schizophrenia in thailand using local data sources that recently have become available. ## Methods: The prevalence of schizophrenia was estimated from a community mental health survey supplemented by a count of hospital admissions. using data from recent meta-analyses of the risk of mortality and remission, we derived incidence and average duration using dismod software. we used treated disability weights based on patient and clinician ratings from our own local survey of patients in contact with mental health services and applied methods from australian burden of disease and cost-effectiveness studies. we applied untreated disability weights from the global burden of disease (gbd) study. uncertainty analysis was conducted using monte carlo simulation. ## Results: The prevalence of schizophrenia at ages 15-59 in the thai population was 8.8 per 1,000 (95% ci: 7.2, 10.6) with a male-to-female ratio of 1.1-to-1. the disability weights from local data were somewhat lower than the gbd w

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Author

Pudtan Phanthunane; Theo Vos; Harvey Whiteford; Melanie Bertram; Pichet Udomratn

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, [2003]-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1478-7954)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)