Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry
Section committee
Section mission
This Section's mission is to:
Promote research on psychiatric epidemiology, social psychiatry and health service research.
Section objectives
- To promote, initiate and perform research in the areas of psychiatric epidemiology and social psychiatry
- To stimulate recruitment of young talents to the fields of epidemiology, social psychiatric and mental health service research
- To support teaching initiatives in epidemiology and social psychiatry in Europe
- To contribute to the quality of psychiatric research and mental health care across Europe
Annual reports
Future Activities
symposium
EPA Congress in Madrid 2025
05 April 2025 - 08 April 2025 / Madrid
Description :
The EPA section will take part in the 33rd EPA Congress, Madrid, Spain, April 5-8, 2025.
The section symposium “Access to treatment and psychosocial outcome in young people with mental disorders” has been accepted. Including speakers from 3 countries, this symposium will provide information on cutting-edge epidemiological methods and results of relevant studies in young people. Dr. Robert Stewart will focus on the pertinence of the use of digital health records, which have recently become available. The use of these large data resources provides results similar to those of traditional community studies, thereby offering unprecedented opportunities for understanding course and outcome in mental health. Dr. Jennifer Dykxhoorn will present data from such primary care electronic health records in England, which support the increasing incidence of common mental disorders in young adults with demographic differences for anxiety and depression as well as growing treatment gaps. Relying on data from a nation-wide Norwegian registry, Dr. Arnstein Mikletun will show that children and adolescents referred to mental health services receive very different treatment according to controversies as to the application of diagnostic thresholds of ADHD. This results in large prognostic variance. Dr. Martin Preisig will present data from a cohort of offspring of treated parents with bipolar and major depressive disorders in Switzerland. This prospective study revealed that the commonly reported lower psychosocial functioning in these offspring is mainly mediated by the frequent emergence of early mood psychopathology in these offspring.
Furthermore, C. Vandeleur will present an e-poster on data from a high-risk study in Lausanne on the topic of “Childhood psychopathology dimensions as predictors of mood disorders among offspring at high risk of mood and substance use disorders”.
M. Preisig, A. Mykleton and C. Vandeleur will attend the EPA section coordination meeting in Madrid.