The World Mental Health Japan Follow-up: a 10-year cohort study of mental disorders in a community population

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25253045
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Epidemiology and preventive medicine
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Kawakami Norito 東京大学, 大学院医学系研究科(医学部), 教授 (90177650)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 島津 明人 東京大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (80318724) ; 宮本 有紀 東京大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 講師 (10292616) ; 梅田 麻希 東京大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (40424311)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 精神保健疫学 / 精神疾患 / 前向きコホート / 罹患率 / 危険因子

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There was only a few prospective cohort studies of mental disorders in a community population in the world. The present study conduct a prospective mental health epidemiology re-interviewing 1,859 respondents to the World Mental Health Survey Japan that was conducted about 10 years ago. Trained interviewers visited a total of 1,465 respondents in Nagasaki, Okayama, and Tamano cities, and interviewed 581, and obtained saliva samples for genomic analysis from 475.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生学