Obesidade e doença mental

International Journal of Obesity (2008) 32, 192–200 & 2008 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 0307-0565/08 $30.00 www.nature.com/ijo

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Obesity and mental disorders in the general population: results from the world mental health surveys
KM Scott1, R Bruffaerts2, GE Simon3, J Alonso4, M Angermeyer5, G de Girolamo6, K Demyttenaere2, I Gasquet7, JM Haro8, E Karam9, RC Kessler10, D Levinson11, ME Medina Mora12, MA Oakley Browne13, J Ormel14, JP Villa15, H Uda16 and M Von Korff3
Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, Wellington, New Zealand; 2University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium; 3Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA, USA; 4Institut Municipal d’Investigacio Medica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain; 5University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; 6Department of Mental Health, AUSL di Bologna, Italy; 7Inserm, Paris, France; 8Sant Joan de Deu-SSM, Barcelona, Spain; 9Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy, and Applied Care (IDRAAC), Beirut, Lebanon; 10Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 11Ministry of Health, Mental Health Services, Jerusalem, Israel; 12National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico; 13 Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Studies in Rural Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia; 14Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht, The Netherlands ; 15 Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca University; Saldarriaga Concha Foundation, Bogota, Colombia and 16Sensatsu Public Health Center, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Objectives: (1) To investigate whether there is an association between obesity and mental disorders in the general populations of diverse countries, and (2) to establish whether demographic variables (sex, age, education) moderate any associations observed. Design: Thirteen cross-sectional, general population surveys conducted as part of the World Mental Health Surveys initiative. Subjects: