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National Comorbidity Survey: Baseline (NCS-1), 1990-1992

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Principal Investigator(s): Kessler, Ronald C.

Summary: The National Comorbidity Survey: Baseline (NCS-1) was a collaborative epidemiologic investigation designed to study the prevalence and correlates of DSM III-R disorders and patterns and correlates of service utilization for these disorders. The NCS-1 was the first survey to administer a structured psychiatric interview to a nationally representative sample. The survey was carried out in the early 1990s with a household sample of over 8,000 respondents. Subsamples of the original respondents comp... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06693.v6

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