Psychiatric Morbidity among Adults Living in Private Households, 2000

The surveys capture information on common mental disorders, mental health treatment and service use, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotic disorder, autism, personality disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, alcohol, drugs, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, self-harm, and comorbidity. </div><div><br></div><div>Further information can be found on the NHS Digital <a href="digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/corporate-information-and-documents/directions-and-data-provision-notices/secretary-of-state-directions/mental-health-and-wellbeing-surveys-directions-2021/adult-psychiatric-morbidity-surveys" target="_blank" style="">Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys webpage</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>A similar series covering young people aged 5 to 15/16, the Mental Health of Children and Young People Surveys (MHCYP), is also commissioned by NHS Digital.</div> The <i>Psychiatric Morbidity among Adults Living in Private Households, 2000</i> survey was designed to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity according to diagnostic category among the adult household population of Great Britain, examine the varying use of services and receipt of care in relation to mental disorder, identify the nature and extent of disability associated with mental disorder, establish key current and lifetime factors which may be associated with mental disorder, and provide information on changes in the prevalence of disorder and related factors between 1993 and 2000.<br>