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Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2014 Feb 2;49(6):961–973. doi: 10.1007/s00127-014-0825-0

Table 4.

Comparison of prevalence rates

Northern Midwest adolescents
Northern Midwest adults
N = 840 (age 19–77)
Beals et al. (1997) AI sample
N = 109 (mean age 15.6)
Beals et al. (2005) AI-SUP1ERPFP
Copeland et al. (2011) Great Smoky Mtns. sample
N = 1,420 (age 9–21)
Kessler et al. (2005a/b) NCS-R sample
N = 9,282 (age 18 +)
N = 592 (mean age 16.2) N = 524 (mean age 18.3) N = 1,638 (age 15–54) N = 1,446 (age 15–54)
Lifetime/past 6 year/past months (%) Wave 6 Wave 8 Wave 1 Northern plains Southwest CIDI
Alcohol/substance use disorders
 LT 42.2 51.0 69.4 37 27.1 42.0 14.6a
 PY 29.9 25.8 18.9f 18.3 17.5 10.5 3.8b
Alcohol abuse
 LT 24.7 32.7 67.1 18.1 14.1 13.2
 PY 16.9 15.3 13.2 6.6 4.1 3.1
Alcohol dependence
 LT 14.5 17.6 19.6 16.6 9.8 5.4
 PY 5.2 4.2 3.9 9.8 4.5 1.3
Alcohol dependence/abusee
 LT 22.1 19.5 14.0 11.0
Marijuana abuse
 LT 12.8 16.8
 PY 6.3 4.0
Marijuana dependence
 LT 18.9 23.7
 PY 10.0 7.4
Marijuana dependence/abuse
 PY 16.2 11.5 8.6
Other substance abuse
 LT 1.0 1.2
 PY 0.0 0.0
Other substance dependence
 LT 1.5 1.9
 PY 1.0 1.4
Other substance dependence/abuse
 PY 1.0 1.3 3.9
Generalized anxiety disorder
 LT 4.8 1.7 3.3 5.7
 PY 0.3 0.8 3.2 1.0 1.8 3.1
 PM 0.2 0.6
Mood disorders
 PY 4.9 2.1 14.8g 9.5
 PM 1.9 1.0
Major depressive disorder/episode
 LT 16.7 7.8 10.7 16.6
 PY 4.6 1.5 8.1 4.3 6.5 6.7
 PM 1.9 1.0 4.7
Disruptive behavior disorder
 LTc 31.9 33.4 23.5
 PY 10.3 3.6 13.8c
Attention deficit/hyperactivity
 LT 8.1
 PY 1.4 1.0 10.6 4.1
Oppositional defiant disorder
 LT 8.5
 PY 3.5 1.7 2.9 1.0
Conduct disorder
 LT 31.4 32.1 9.5
 PY 7.8 1.3 3.8 1.0
At least one disorder
 LT 51.4d 58.2d 71.8 61.1 46.4
 PY 34.1 28.1 24.8f 21.1 26.2
Two or more disorders
 LT 32.1d 37.2d 37.0 27.7
 PY 16.7 11.3 8.6f 11.8
a

Lifetime rates come from Kessler, Berglund, Demler, Jin, Merikangas, and Walters (2005)

b

Past-year rates come from Kessler, Chiu, Demler, and Walters (2005)

c

Lifetime (conduct disorder) + past year (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder)

d

Lifetime (all alcohol/substance use disorders and conduct disorder) + past year (generalized anxiety disorder, mood disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder)

e

Alcohol abuse with or without dependence

f

Includes alc. abuse/dep, drug abuse, MDD, and GAD)

g

Lifetime diagnosis