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  • Title: Depression in New Haven, 1975-76: an epidemiologic study.
    Author: Weissman MM, Myers JK.
    Journal: Yale J Biol Med; 1980; 53(2):117-26. PubMed ID: 7395270.
    Abstract:
    Results of a 1975--76 community survey of psychiatric disorders conducted in New Haven, Connecticut, are presented. These results represent the first application of new research diagnostic techniques to a community sample and demonstrate that major depression is the most common psychiatric disorder with a current prevalence rate of about 4 percent. Most persons with a diagnosis of major depression did not seek treatment from a professional for an emotional problem; few saw a psychiatrist or were hospitalized. They were, however, high attenders of nonpsychiatric physicians for problems they did not identify as emotional, and the majority used psychotropic drugs but usually not a tricyclic antidepressant. The scientific and policy implications of these findings are discussed.
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