Error in Andrews et al (2001)

G. Andrews

University of New South Wales, School of Psychiatry, Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders, 299 Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia

S. Henderson

Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

W. Hall

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

EDITED BY MATTHEW HOTOPF

Dr Meadows and colleagues have drawn our attention to a wrong and misleading sentence in the Method section of Andrews et al (2001a). We conclude the sub-section on assessment (p. 146) by saying "Perceived health need was based on the UK Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity questions". This sentence should read: "Perceived health need was based on work by Meadows et al (2000a). Similar concepts were used by the UK Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity questions".

We apologise for this omission and draw readers' attention to Meadows et al (2000b) for a more complete discussion of the development of the Perceived Need for Care Questionnaire. This is a reference we have used in subsequent papers (e.g. Andrews et al, 2001b).

REFERENCES

Andrews, G., Henderson, S. & Hall, W. (2001a) Prevalence, comorbidity, disability and service utilisation. Overview of the Australian National Mental Health Survey. British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, 145-153.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

Andrews, G., Issakidis, C. & Carter, G. (2001b) Shortfall in mental health service utilisation. British Journal of Psychiatry, 179, 417-425.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

Meadows, G., Fossey, E., Harvey, C. A., et al (2000a) The assessment of perceived need. In Unmet Need in Psychiatry (eds G. Andrews & S. Henderson). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Meadows, G., Harvey, C., Fossey, E., et al (2000b) Assessing perceived need for mental health care in a community survey: the development of the Perceived Need for Care Questionnaire (PNCQ). Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 35, 427-435.[CrossRef][Medline]





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