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Implementation of a Real-Time Psychosis Risk Detection and Alerting System Based on Electronic Health Records using CogStack
Published on: May 15, 2020
[Individual and population-based risk in mental health in Catalonia, Spain]
Ricard Tresserras-Gaju1, Antonia Medina-Bustos, Anna Mompart-Penina
1Direcció General de Regulació, Planificació i Recursos Sanitaris, Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, España. ricard.tresserras@gencat.cat
Abstract:
Mental health disorders are health problems with a high health, social and economic impact and with relevant effects on the quality of life of both the patients and their families. The objective of this article is to measure the prevalence of mental disorders in Catalonia and to analyze changes the changes in the results obtained in the Goldberg General Health Questionnaire in the Catalan Health Survey editions developed in 1994 and 2006. The prevalence of population at risk of suffering of a mental health disorder does not differ in both years (12.6% in 1994 and 11.6% in 2006). Women showed a higher risk than men in both surveys. Paradoxically, it is amongst the people without risk where the highest number of cases of depression, anxiety, antidepressant use, psychiatry visits or bad perception of health was declared. The results agreed with the risk and prevention paradox and are relevant at the time of designing strategies for mental health disorders prevention.
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