Awards

• Commended for BMA Medical Book Competition: Mental Health Category 2004.
• Winner of Highly Commended in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition - Mental Health Category.

Overview

Epidemiology is a practical discipline involving the systematic study of health, disease, and human behaviour in the natural world. It aims to describe the extent and pattern of a problem: who, when and where people become ill, and then to explain these observations. Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology provides a general introduction to epidemiological techniques for psychiatric research. As demand grows for evidence based practice in psychiatry, there is increasing use of epidemiological methods for studies into causes, prognosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; however, working in the field of mental health throws up its own particular challenges. This book explains how to adapt the tried and tested methods used in generic epidemiology to the special circumstances of psychiatric epidemiology. The result is a comprehensive introduction to the field, accessible to clinicians, in practice and in training, as well as those embarking on a career in mental health research. It will also be of interest to those from outside the sphere of mental health, interested in the special methodological difficulties encountered.

Full Product Details

Author:   Martin Prince ,  Robert Stewart ,  Tamsin Ford (all at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK) ,  Matthew Hotopf (Reader in Psychological Medicine, GKT School of Medicine, King's College London, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.616kg
ISBN:  

9780198515517

ISBN 10:   0198515510
Pages:   428
Publication Date:   07 August 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Section 1 - Basic Principles 1: Prince, Stewart, Ford & Hotopf: The development of psychiatric epidemiology 2: Prince: Measurement in psychiatry 3: Patel: Cultural issues in measurement and research 4: Kessel & Silverton: Ethics and research in psychiatry Section 2 - Study Design 5: Ford: Introduction to epidemiological study designs 6: Neeleman: Ecological and cross-level studies 7: Prince: Cross-sectional surveys 8: Hotopf: The case-control study 9: Weich & Prince: Cohort studies 10: Banerjee: Randomised controlled trials 11: Moncrieff: Research synthesis: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis Section 3 - Interpretation 12: Stewart: Inference 1: chance, bias and confounding 13: Stewart: Inference 2: causation 14: Dewey: Statistical methods in psychiatric epidemiology I: a statistician's perspective 15: Prince: Statistical methods in psychiatric epidemiology II: an epidemiologist's perspective 16: Churchill: Critical appraisal Section 4 - Special Topics 17: Sham & Rijsdijk: Genetic epidemiology I: behavioural genetics 18: Collier & Li: Genetic epidemiology II: molecular genetics 19: Chisholm & McCrone: Health economics for psychiatric epidemiology 20: Murray: Qualitative research 21: Prince, Stewart, Ford & Hotopf: Psychiatric epidemiology - looking to the future

Reviews

The chapters are all extremely well written ... this is an excellent book, certainly required reading for anyone embarking on a career in psychiatric research. It should also prove useful for trainee psychiatrists preparing for their Membership examinations ... I also suspect this book is destined to become a core text for many courses on psychiatric research. Primary Care Mental Health, Vol 2, Issue 2

The chapters are all extremely well written ... this is an excellent book, certainly required reading for anyone embarking on a career in psychiatric research. It should also prove useful for trainee psychiatrists preparing for their Membership examinations ... I also suspect this book is destined to become a core text for many courses on psychiatric research. Primary Care Mental Health, Vol 2, Issue 2

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