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Nancy A. Sampson
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 262
Citations - 42416
Nancy A. Sampson is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 231 publications receiving 32846 citations.
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Twelve‐month and lifetime prevalence and lifetime morbid risk of anxiety and mood disorders in the United States.
TL;DR: Estimates of 12‐month and lifetime prevalence and of lifetime morbid risk (LMR) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM‐IV‐TR) anxiety and mood disorders are presented based on US epidemiological surveys among people aged 13+.
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Prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in the world mental health survey initiative.
Kathleen R. Merikangas,Robert Jin,Jian-Ping He,Ronald C. Kessler,Sing Lee,Nancy A. Sampson,Maria Carmen Viana,Laura Helena Andrade,Chiyi Hu,Elie G. Karam,Maria Ladea,María Elena Medina-Mora,Yutaka Ono,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,J. Elisabeth Wells,Zahari Zarkov +16 more
TL;DR: The uniform increases in clinical correlates, suicidal behavior, and comorbidity across each diagnostic category provide evidence for the validity of the concept of BPS.
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Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys
Ronald C. Kessler,Katie A. McLaughlin,Jennifer Greif Green,Michael J. Gruber,Nancy A. Sampson,Alan M. Zaslavsky,Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola,Ali Al-Hamzawi,Jordi Alonso,Matthias C. Angermeyer,Corina Benjet,Evelyn J. Bromet,Somnath Chatterji,Giovanni de Girolamo,Koen Demyttenaere,John Fayyad,Silvia Florescu,Gilad Gal,Oye Gureje,Josep Maria Haro,Chiyi Hu,Elie G. Karam,Norito Kawakami,Sing Lee,Jean-Pierre Lépine,Johan Ormel,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Adley Tsang,Bedirhan Üstün,Svetlozar Vassilev,Maria Carmen Viana,Daniel R. Williams +32 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined joint associations of 12 childhood adversities with first onset of 20 DSM-IV disorders in World Mental Health Surveys in 21 countries and found strong associations with all classes of disorders at all life-course stages.
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Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode
Evelyn J. Bromet,Laura Helena Andrade,Irving Hwang,Nancy A. Sampson,Jordi Alonso,Giovanni de Girolamo,Ron de Graaf,Koen Demyttenaere,Chiyi Hu,Noboru Iwata,A. N. Karam,Jagdish Kaur,Stanislav Kostyuchenko,Jean-Pierre Lépine,Daphna Levinson,Herbert Matschinger,Maria Elena Medina Mora,Mark Anthony Oakley Browne,Jose Posada-Villa,Maria Carmen Viana,David R. Williams,Ronald C. Kessler +21 more
TL;DR: Data is presented on the prevalence, impairment and demographic correlates of depression from 18 high and low- to middle-income countries in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative to investigate the combination of demographic risk factors that are most strongly associated with MDE in the specific countries included in the WMH.
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Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative
Ronald C. Kessler,Jennifer Greif Green,Michael J. Gruber,Nancy A. Sampson,Evelyn J. Bromet,Marius Cuitan,Toshi A. Furukawa,Oye Gureje,Hristo Hinkov,Chi yi Hu,Carmen Lara,Sing Lee,Zeina Mneimneh,Landon Myer,Mark Oakley-Browne,Jose Posada-Villa,Rajesh Sagar,Maria Carmen Viana,Alan M. Zaslavsky +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported on the background and performance of the K6 screening scale for serious mental illness (SMI) in the World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) surveys.