National Mental Health Survey of India 2015-2016

[1] [INLINE:1] Media referred to the findings of the report as follows: “India needs to talk about mental illness;”[2] “Every sixth Indian needs mental health help;”[3] “8% of people in Karnataka have mental illness;”[4] “Mental problems more in 30–49 age group or over 60; low income linked to occurrence of mental disorders;”[5] and “urban areas to be most affected”[2] were some of the headlines in the mass media. First of this is the lifetime and current prevalence for the different states [Table 1]. [...]the methodology and the use of information technology used for the survey is a major methodological advance in psychiatric epidemiology in the country. [...]it has provided insights into the prevalence of different mental disorders in 12 centers and some sociodemographic associations of these disorders.