Excess mortality in severe mental illness: 10-year population-based cohort study in rural Ethiopia

Abebaw Fekadu¹, Girmay Medhin¹, Derege Kebede¹+5

• ¹Abebaw Fekadu, MD, MSc, MRCPsych, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, London, UK; Girmay Medhin, MSc, PhD, Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Derege Kebede, MD, DSc, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo; Atalay Alem, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Anthony J. Cleare, BSc, MBBS, MRCPsych, PhD, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, London, UK; Martin Prince, MD, MSc, FRCPsych, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Health Services and Population Research Department; Charlotte Hanlon, BMBS, MSc, MRCPsych, PhD, Teshome Shibre, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.