Psychiatric Epidemiology Glossary

Disease prevalence estimated from healthcare records and administrative databases rather than direct assessment.

The age at which an individual first experiences symptoms or meets diagnostic criteria for a psychiatric disorder.

Proportion of psychiatric disorder cases in exposed individuals that can be attributed to a specific risk factor.

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption, a brief screening tool for hazardous drinking.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a state-based telephone survey that collects data on health behaviors and me...

Standardized criteria used to determine whether an individual qualifies as a case in an epidemiological study.

The proportion of identified cases within a defined population at a specific point in time or period.

Epidemiological study design that examines the proportion of a population affected by a psychiatric disorder at a specif...

A retrospective study design comparing individuals with a psychiatric disorder (cases) to those without (controls) to id...

Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness, a landmark pragmatic trial comparing antipsychotic medicati...

Composite International Diagnostic Interview, a standardized instrument for assessing mental disorders according to ICD...

Syndrome characterized by subclinical psychotic symptoms that may precede the onset of full psychotic disorder.

Systematic differences in psychiatric disorder rates between groups born in different time periods, reflecting historica...

The co-occurrence of two or more psychiatric disorders in the same individual, either simultaneously or sequentially.

A study design that examines the relationship between variables at a single point in time.

Disability-adjusted life year; a metric combining years lost to premature death and years lived with psychiatric disabil...

Drug Abuse Warning Network, a surveillance system that monitors drug-related emergency department visits and deaths.

Statistical approaches used to identify patterns of co-occurring psychiatric symptoms or disorders within populations.

The degree of agreement between different diagnostic assessments or between diagnoses made at different time points.

Change in psychiatric diagnosis over time, reflecting either diagnostic instability or natural evolution of psychiatric...

Structured clinical interview tool designed for systematic psychiatric assessment in epidemiological research.

The phenomenon where patients receive different psychiatric diagnoses over time, reflecting changes in clinical presenta...

The consistency of psychiatric diagnoses over time, indicating the reliability and validity of diagnostic classification...

The minimum criteria or cutoff point required to meet diagnostic classification for a psychiatric disorder.