Indicators of mental disorders in UK Biobank—A comparison of approaches

Objectives For many research cohorts, it is not practical to provide a “gold‐standard” mental health diagnosis. It is therefore important for mental health research that potential alternative measures for ascertaining mental disorder status are understood. Methods Data from UK Biobank in those participants who had completed the online Mental Health Questionnaire ( n = 157,363) were used to compare the classification of mental disorder by four...