Lifetime experience of multiple common mental disorders and 19-year mortality: results from a Canadian population-based cohort

Aims To examine the impact of multiple psychiatric disorders over the lifetime on risk of mortality in the general population. Methods Data came from a random community-based sample of 1397 adults in Atlantic Canada, recruited in 1992. Major depression, dysthymia, panic disorder, generalised anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorders were assessed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). Vital status of participants through 2011 was...