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David R. Offord
Researcher at McMaster-Carr
Publications - 25
Citations - 5919
David R. Offord is an academic researcher from McMaster-Carr. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Conduct disorder. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 25 publications receiving 5723 citations. Previous affiliations of David R. Offord include McMaster University & Hamilton Health Sciences.
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Ontario Child Health Study: II. Six-Month Prevalence of Disorder and Rates of Service Utilization
David R. Offord,Michael H. Boyle,Peter Szatmari,Naomi I. Rae-Grant,Paul S. Links,David Cadman,John A. Byles,John W. Crawford,Heather Munroe Blum,Carolyn Byrne,Helen Thomas,Christel A. Woodward +11 more
TL;DR: The utilization data indicated that children with these psychiatric disorders, compared with children without these disorders, were almost four times more likely to have received mental health or social services in the six months preceding this study.
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The epidemiology of major depressive episodes: results from the International Consortium of Psychiatric Epidemiology (ICPE) Surveys
Laura Helena Andrade,Jorge J. Caraveo-Anduaga,Patricia A. Berglund,Rob V. Bijl,Ron de Graaf,Wilma A. M. Vollebergh,Eva Dragomirecka,Robert Kohn,Martin B. Keller,Ronald C. Kessler,Norito Kawakami,Cengiz Kılıç,David R. Offord,T. Bedirhan Üstün,Hans-Ulrich Wittchen +14 more
TL;DR: Community epidemiological surveys using the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview administered face‐to‐face were carried out in 10 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
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Ontario Child Health Study: Reliability and Validity of the General Functioning Subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment Device
TL;DR: The reliability and validity of the 12-item General Functioning subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) is reported and the brevity and ease of administering the GF subscale recommend it for further use in survey research in which a global assessment of family functioning is required.
Cross-national comparisons of the prevalences and correlates of mental disorders WHO International Consortium in Psychiatric Epidemiology 1
Laura Helena Andrade,Patricia A. Berglund,Rob V. Bijl,Ellen E. Walters,David R. Offord,T. B. Üstün +5 more
TL;DR: The International Consortium in Psychiatric Epidemiology (ICPE) was established in 1998 by WHO to carry out cross-national comparative studies of the prevalences and correlates of mental disorders.
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One-year prevalence of psychiatric disorder in Ontarians 15 to 64 years of age.
David R. Offord,Michael H. Boyle,Dugal Campbell,Paula Goering,Elizabeth Lin,Maria Wong,Yvonne Racine +6 more
TL;DR: Because of the immense burden of suffering associated with psychiatric disorders, clinical and research efforts in this area should receive high priority within the health budget.