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. 2020 Nov 22;38(3):286–306. doi: 10.1002/da.23113

Table 1.

Study characteristics of included studies that provided lifetime and period prevalence (n = 146)

First author, year, country Sample size Study design Mood disorder typea Anxiety disorder typea Diagnostic criteria Risk estimate type Control variables Quality reporting score
Adam, 2012, Germany 4181 CS DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR, MOOD OCD DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex 15
Alonso, 2004, Multiple countries 21 425 CS DEP, DYS GAD, PTSD, SO, SP, AGO, PD DSM‐IV OR 15
Alvarenga, 2016, Brazil 2512 CS DEP, BIPOLAR, MOOD OCD DSM‐IV ORb 12
Andrews, 2002, Australia 10 641 CS DEP, DYS GAD, OCD, PTSD, PD, AGO, SO DSM‐IV OR, aOR Mental disorders 14
Angst, 2005, Switzerland 591 PC DEP, BIPOLAR OCD DSM‐IV aOR Sex 12
Arillo Crespo, 1998, Spain 237 CS DEP SP, AGO, SO, PTSD, PD, ANX DSM‐III‐R OR 11
Autonell, 2007, Spain 5473 CS DYS GAD, PTSD, AGO, SO, SP DSM‐IV aOR Sociodemographic variables 14
Beekman, 2000, the Netherlands 3056 PC DEP ANX DSM‐III ORb 12
Beesdo, 2007, Germanyc 3021 PC MOOD SO DSM‐IV OR 15
Biederman, 2005, USA 1031 CC DEP PD DSM‐III‐R ORb 11
Blanco, 2017, USA 36 309 PC BIPOLAR AGO, PTSD DSM‐5 aOR Sex, age, race, marital status, education, household income, urbanicity, region, and mental disorders 16
Boyd, 1984, USA 11 519 CS DEP PD, AGO, SP, OCD DSM‐III OR 11
Bromet, 2005, Ukraine 4725 CS DEP, MOOD GAD, PD, ANX DSM‐IV OR 15
Bruce, 2001, USA 1492 PC DEP, DYS PTSD DSM‐IV ORb 10
Cairney, 2007, Canada 12 792 CS DEP SO DSM‐IV aOR Did not specify 15
Cairney, 2008, Canada 36 984 CS DEP SO, ANX DSM‐IV ORb 11
Carter, 2001, Germany 4181 CS DEP, DYS, MOOD GAD, PD, AGO, SO, SP, ANX DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex 15
Cederlof, 2015, Swedenc 19 814 CC BIPOLAR OCD ICD RR 13
Chartier, 2003, Canada 8116 CS DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR SO DSM‐III‐R aOR Age, sex, education 16
Chavira, 2004, USA 1173 CS DEP SAD, GAD, SP, SO DSM‐IV aOR Sex 14
Chen, 1995, USA 18 103 CS DEP, BIPOLAR PD DSM‐III aOR Age, sex, race, marital status, education, socioeconomic status, history of alcohol and drug abuse 14
Chen, 2017, China 512 891 CS DEP GAD DSM‐IV aOR Education, household income, occupation, smoking, alcohol, BMI, physical activity, chronic disease, mental disorders 16
Chou, 2009, USA 13 420 PC BIPOLAR, DYS SO DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex, race, marital status, education, employment status, personal income, psychosocial risk factor, childhood experience, childlessness, foreign‐born, living alone, number of stressful life events, comorbid disorders 15
Chou, 2009, USA 34 653 PC DYS, BIPOLAR SP DSM‐IV aOR Demographic variables, psychiatric disorders 15
Chou, 2010, USA 13 420 PC DYS PD DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex, race, marital status, education, employment status, personal income, psychosocial risk factor, number of stressful life events, comorbid disorders 15
Choy, 2007, USA 5877 CS DEP SP DSM‐III‐R OR, aOR Age, sex, race, marital status, income, education, mental disorders 14
Chuan, 2008, Singapore 1092 CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV OR, aOR Age, sex, race, education, housing type, employment status, marital status, living arrangements 16
Copeland, 2013, USA 2967 CS, PC DEP, DYS GAD, SAD, SO DSM‐IV OR, aOR Mental disorders 16
Corna, 2007, Canada 12 792 CS DEP PD DSM‐IV OR, aOR Age, sex, marital status, income adequacy, education, language spoken, geographic location of residence, chronic health problems, limitations in ADLs/IADLS, mental disorders 15
Costello, 2003, USAc 6674 PC MOOD ANX DSM‐IV OR, aOR Mental disorders 13
Coyne, 1994, USA 1928 CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV ORb 10
Cyranowski, 2012, USA 939 PC DEP ANX DSM‐IV ORb 12
Davidson, 1991, USA 4423 PC DEP PTSD DSM‐III OR 10
de Graaf, 2002, the Netherlands 7076 PC DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR ANX DSM‐IV OR 12
de Graaf, 2003, the Netherlands 7076 PC DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR PD, AGO, SP, SO, GAD, OCD DSM‐IV OR 13
Depla, 2008, the Netherlands 7076 PC DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR SP DSM‐III‐R aOR Age, sex, other specific fears 15
Douglass, 1995, New Zealand 1037 PC DEP, DYS OCD DSM‐III‐R ORb 11
Essau, 1999, Germany 1035 CS DEP PD DSM‐IV ORb 11
Essau, 2003, Germany 1444 CS DEP, DYS ANX DSM‐IV OR 13
Faravelli, 2004a, Italy 2500 CS DEP, DYS GAD, OCD, PD, SO, SP DSM‐IV ORb 9
Faravelli, 2004b, Italy 2363 CS DEP, DYS GAD, OCD, PD, SO, SP DSM‐IV ORb 11
Fehm, 2008, Germany 4181 CS DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR, MOOD SO DSM‐IV OR 13
Fineberg, 2013, Switzerland 591 PC DEP, BIPOLAR OCD DSM‐III OR 13
Fleitlich‐Bilyk, 2004, Brazil 1251 CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV aOR Mental disorders 15
Ford, 2003, Multiple countries d CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV aOR Mental disorders 15
Fung, 2017, Hong Kong 5719 CS DEP ANX ICD‐10 ORb 11
Gabilondo, 2010, Spain 5473 CS DEP GAD, AGO, SP, SO, PTSD, PD, ANX DSM‐IV aOR Sex, education, marital status 15
Glaesmer, 2012, Germany 5033 CS DEP PTSD DSM‐IV, ICD‐10 aOR Age, sex 15
Goncalves, 2011, Australia 8841 CS DEP GAD DSM‐IV OR, aOR Age, sex, living arrangements, financial problems, frequency family contact, caregiver status, stressful life events, worry about illness, exercise, chronic illness, functional limitations, self‐assessed health, medication, smoking, family history of anxiety 13
Goodwin, 2004, Germanyc 3021 PC DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR, MOOD PD DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex 13
Grabe, 2001, Germany 4093 PC DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR OCD DSM‐IV OR 14
Grant, 2005, USA 43 093 PC BIPOLAR, DYS, MOOD GAD DSM‐IV aOR Age, race, sex, marital status, education, income, urbanicity, region of country 15
Grant, 2005, USA 43 093 PC DYS, BIPOLAR, MOOD SO DSM‐IV aOR Age, race, marital status, education, income, urbanicity, region 15
Grant, 2005, USA 43 093 PC BIPOLAR PD, SO, SP, GAD, ANX DSM‐IV OR, aOR Age, race, marital status, education, income, urbanicity, region 15
Gratzer, 2004, Canada 8116 CS DEP ANX DSM‐III‐R ORb 10
Grenier, 2011, Canada 2798 CS DEP SP DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex, socioeconomic status 16
Gureje, 2010, Nigeria 6752 CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV aOR Sex, education, marital status 16
Hasin, 2005, USA 43 093 PC DEP PD, SO, SP, GAD, ANX DSM‐IV OR, aOR Age, sex, race, marital status, education, income, region, urbanicity 15
Hauffa, 2011, Germany 2510 CS DEP PTSD DSM‐IV ORb 11
He, 2009, China 8487 CS MOOD ANX DSM‐IV ORb 10
Hecht, 1990, Germany 1366 PC MOOD ANX DSM‐III ORb 10
Hek, 2011, the Netherlands 6007 PC MOOD GAD, AGO, ANX DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex, education, living alone, cognitive status 16
Hunt, 2002, Australia 10 641 CS DEP, DYS, MOOD GAD DSM‐IV aOR Mental disorders 15
Jaffee, 2002, New Zealandc 1037 PC DEP ANX DSM aOR Sex 13
Jeon, 2007, South Korea 6275 CS DEP, MOOD PTSD DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex, education 15
Kang, 2016, South Koreac 1204 PC DEP ANX AGECAT OR, aOR Sex, housing, stressful life event, clinical factor 15
Kashani, 1988, USA 150 CS DEP ANX DSM‐III ORb 10
Katona, 1997, UK 774 CS DEP GAD, PHOBIA CARE ORb 8
Kawakami, 2004, Japan 1029 CS MOOD ANX DSM‐III‐R ORb 15
Kessler, 1995, USA 8098 CS DYS PTSD DSM‐III‐R OR 13
Kessler, 1996, USAc 8098 CS DEP GAD, AGO, SP, SO, PTSD, ANX DSM‐III‐R OR 15
Kessler, 1997, USA 8098 CS BIPOLAR GAD, AGO, SP, SO, PD, PTSD, ANX DSM‐III‐R OR 13
Kessler, 1999, USA 11 130 CS DEP GAD DSM‐III‐R ORb 11
Kessler, 1999, USAc 8098 CS BIPOLAR SO DSM‐III‐R aOR Age, sex, race, person‐year 14
Kessler, 2002a, Multiple countriesc 20 189 CS DEP, DYS, MOOD GAD DSM‐III‐R OR 15
Kessler, 2002b, USA 8098 CS DEP GAD DSM‐III‐R ORb 11
Kim, 2016, South Korea 3013 CS BIPOLAR GAD, OCD, AGO, SO, SP, PTSD, PD, ANX DSM‐IV OR 14
Kolada, 1994, Canada 3258 CS DEP, DYS OCD DSM‐III ORb 11
Lampe, 2003, Australia 10 641 CS DEP, DYS SO DSM‐IV aOR Mental disorders 14
Leray, 2011, France 36 015 CS DEP GAD, SO, PD, AGO, PTSD, ANX ICD‐10 aOR Socio‐demographics 15
Lewinsohn, 1993, USA 1710 PC BIPOLAR ANX DSM‐III‐R OR 12
Lewinsohn, 1995, USA 1709 PC BIPOLAR SAD, PD, PHOBIA, ANX DSM‐III‐R ORb 11
Lewinsohn, 1997, USA 1709 PC DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR PD, SO, SP, OCD, SAD, OVRANX, ANX DSM‐III‐R aOR Sex, mental disorders 15
Lim, 2005, Singapore 2847 CS DEP, DYS GAD DSM‐IV ORb 12
Magee, 1996, USA 8098 CS DYS, MOOD AGO, SP, SO DSM‐III‐R OR 15
Magklara, 2015, Greece 5614 CS DEP GAD, OCD, PD, AGO, PHOBIA ICD‐10 aOR Age, sex 16
Martin‐Merino, 2010, Multiple countries 97 170 nested CC DEP ANX READ aOR Age, sex, calendar year, smoking, primary care physician visits, stress, sleep and ANXs 12
McCabe, 2006, Canada 12 792 CS DEP AGO DSM‐IV OR, aOR Did not specify 15
McEvoy, 2011, Australia 8841 CS DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR, MOOD ANX DSM‐IV OR 13
Mergl, 2007, Germany 394 CS DEP, DYS ANX ICD‐10 OR 10
Merikangas, 1996, Multiple countries d CS, PC DEP GAD, PD, AGO, SP, SO, ANX DSM‐III, DSM‐III‐R OR 13
Merikangas, 2003, Switzerland 4547 PC DEP ANX DSM aOR Mental disorders, sex, SCL‐90 risk group 14
Merikangas, 2011, Multiple countries 61 392 CS BIPOLAR GAD, PTSD, OCD, AGO, PD, SP, SO, SAD, ANX DSM‐IV aOR Age, age‐squared, country 16
Mitchell, 2004, Australia 10 641 CS BIPOLAR GAD, OCD, PTSD, PD, AGO, SO DSM‐IV aOR Mental disorders 15
Moffitt, 2007, New Zealand 1037 PC DEP GAD DSM OR 13
Mohammadi, 2006, Iran 25 180 CS DEP, BIPOLAR SO DSM‐IV OR 13
Mohammadi, 2007, Iran 25 180 CS DEP, BIPOLAR OCD DSM‐IV OR 10
Munyandamutsa, 2012, Rwanda 1000 CS DEP PTSD DSM‐IV OR 15
Murphy, 2004, Canada 1201 PC DEP ANX DSM‐III‐R ORb 11
Newman, 1996, New Zealand 1037 PC MOOD ANX DSM‐III‐R ORb 10
Ohayon, 2000, Canada 2516 CS DEP, BIPOLAR GAD, AGO, PD, SO, SP, OCD, PTSD DSM‐IV ORb 11
Ohayon, 2010, Multiple countries 18 980 CS DEP GAD, OCD, PTSD, AGO, PD, SP DSM‐IV OR 10
Pakriev, 1998, Russia 855 CS DEP SO, SP ICD‐10 OR 12
Pietrzak, 2012, USA 34 653 PC DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR, MOOD PTSD DSM‐IV aOR Sociodemographic variables, mental disorders 16
Pirkola, 2005, Finland 6038 CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV ORb 13
Preville, 2008, Canada 2798 CS DEP GAD, AGO DSM‐IV ORb 12
Prina, 2011, Multiple countries d CS DEP ANX ICD‐10 ORb 13
Rihmer, 2001, Hungary 2953 CS DEP, BIPOLAR GAD, PD, AGO, SO, SP DSM‐III‐R ORb 10
Ritchie, 2013, Francec 1968 PC DEP AGO DSM‐IV ORb 12
Rohde, 1991, USA 3770 PC DEP ANX DSM‐III‐R OR 13
Romano, 2005, Canada 2000 PC DEP ANX DSM‐III‐R OR 13
Roy‐Byrne, 2000, USA 8098 CS DEP PD DSM‐III‐R OR 14
Rueda‐Jaimes, 2008, Colombia 474 CS DEP OCD DSM‐IV OR, aOR Did not specify 15
Ruscio, 2008, USA 9282 CS DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR, MOOD SO DSM‐III, DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex, race 15
Ruscio, 2010, USA 9282 CS DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR, MOOD OCD DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex, race 15
Sahoo, 2010, India 500 CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV, ICD‐10 ORb 12
Sartorius, 1996, Multiple countries 5438 CS DEP ANX ICD‐10 OR 11
Schaffer, 2006, Canada 36 984 CS BIPOLAR ANX DSM‐IV OR 14
Schaub, 2000, Germany 516 CS DEP ANX DSM‐III‐R OR 12
Schneier, 1992, USA 13 537 CS DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR SO DSM‐III aOR Age, sex, site 15
Schoevers, 2003, the Netherlands 4051 PC DEP GAD GMS‐AGECAT ORb 11
Schrier, 2012, the Netherlands 725 CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV ORb 12
Scott, 2006, New Zealand 12 992 CS DEP, DYS, BIPOLAR PD, AGO, SP, SO, GAD, PTSD, OCD DSM‐IV OR 12
Serrano‐Blanco, 2010, Spain 3820 CS DEP, DYS SO, SP, AGO, PD DSM‐IV OR 14
Sicras‐Mainar, 2008, Spain 65 767 PC DEP GAD ICD‐9 aOR Age, sex, mental disorders 14
Spaner, 1994, Canada 3258 CS DEP OCD, PD, PHOBIA DSM‐III ORb 11
Stein, 2004, Canada 9953 CS DEP GAD DSM‐III‐R aOR Age, sex, social class of parents, DYS 15
Stylianidis, 2014, Greece 900 CS DEP GAD, PD, AGO ICD‐10 ORb 11
Subramaniam, 2013, Singapore 6616 CS BIPOLAR GAD, OCD DSM‐IV aOR Age, sex, race 16
Szadoczky, 2002, Hungary 2953 CS DEP PD, GAD, AGO, SO, SP, OCD, ANX DSM‐III‐R OR 14
Thompson, 1989, Canada 3258 CS DEP AGO, PD DSM‐III OR 13
Trumpf, 2010, Germany 1538 PC DEP, MOOD SP DSM‐IV OR, aOR Mental disorders 15
Tsuchiya, 2009, Japanc 2437 CS DEP SO, AGO, SP DSM‐IV aOR Sex, birth‐cohort, number of other ANXs, marital status, education 15
Vaiva, 2008, France 36 105 CS DEP, DYS PTSD DSM‐IV aOR Variables that were significant in the univariate model 12
Van Ameringen, 2008, Canada 2991 CS DEP PTSD DSM‐IV OR 13
van Balkom, 2000, the Netherlands 3107 PC DEP GAD, OCD, PD, PHOBIA DSM‐III OR 13
van Loo, 2016, the Netherlands 167 729 PC DEP GAD DSM‐IV OR 13
Weissman, 1994, Multiple countries d CS, PC DEP OCD DSM‐III OR 13
Weissman, 1996, Multiple countries d CS, PC DEP OCD, PD DSM‐III aOR Age, sex 13
Weissman, 1997, Multiple countries 1746 PC DEP PD DSM‐III aOR Age, sex 13
Wichstrom, 2012, Norway 2475 CS DEP ANX DSM‐IV OR 14
Wittchen, 1992, Germany 1974 PC MOOD ANX DSM‐III ORb 11
Wittchen, 1994, USA 8098 CS DEP, DYS GAD DSM‐IV OR 13
Wittchen, 1999, Germany 3021 PC DEP, DYS, MOOD SO DSM‐IV aOR Sex 14
Wittchen, 2000, Germany 4181 CS DEP GAD DSM‐IV ORb 12
Zhang, 2015, France 2189 CS DEP GAD DSM‐IV OR, aOR Age, sex, mental disorders 16
Zutshi, 2006, India 130 CC BIPOLAR GAD, OCD, SO, ANX DSM‐IV ORb 10

Abbreviations: AGO, agoraphobia with or without panic disorder; ANX, broadly defined anxiety disorder; aOR, adjusted odds ratio; BIPOLAR, bipolar I, II or bipolar disorder; CC, case‐control studies; CS, cross‐sectional studies; DEP, depressive disorder; DYS, dysthymia; GAD, generalized anxiety disorder; MOOD, mood disorder; OCD, obsessive‐compulsive disorder; OR, odds ratio; OVRANX, overanxious disorder; PC, prospective cohort studies; PD, panic disorder; PHOBIA, phobia disorder; PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder; RR, risk ratio; SAD, separation anxiety disorder; SO, social phobia or social anxiety disorder; SP, specific phobia or simple phobia.

a

Disorders assessed in the study. We did not extract comorbidity estimates within the same disorder class.

b

These are extracted from 2 × 2 table.

c

These studies have both temporally and non‐temporally ordered estimates.

d

Multiple sample sizes.