Authors
Harry Man Xiong Lai, Michelle Cleary, Thiagarajan Sitharthan, Glenn E Hunt
Publication date
2015/9/1
Source
Drug and alcohol dependence
Volume
154
Pages
1-13
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
Comorbidity is highly prevalent between substance use disorders (SUDs), mood and anxiety disorders. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the strength of association between SUDs, mood and anxiety disorders in population-based epidemiological surveys.
Methods
A comprehensive literature search of Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychINFO, Web of Science, and Scopus was conducted from 1990 to 2014. Sources were chosen on the basis that they contained original research in non-clinical populations conducted in randomly selected adults living within defined boundaries. Prevalence of comorbid SUDs, mood and anxiety disorders and odds ratios (ORs) were extracted.
Results
There were 115 articles identified by electronic searches that were reviewed in full text which yielded 22 unique epidemiological surveys to extract lifetime and 12-month prevalence data for …
Scholar articles
HMX Lai, M Cleary, T Sitharthan, GE Hunt - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2015