About the Authors

Matthew K. Nock

nock@wjh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Irving Hwang

Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nancy Sampson

Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ronald C. Kessler

Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Matthias Angermeyer

Affiliation Center for Public Mental Health, Gösing am Wagram, Austria

Annette Beautrais

Affiliation University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

Guilherme Borges

Affiliation Department of Epidemiological Research, Division of Epidemiological and Psychosocial Research, National Institute of Psychiatry (Mexico) & Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico

Evelyn Bromet

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Ronny Bruffaerts

Affiliation University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

Giovanni de Girolamo

Affiliation IRCCS Centro S. Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy

Ron de Graaf

Affiliation Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Silvia Florescu

Affiliation Public Health Research and Evidence Based Medicine Department, National School of Public Health and Health Services Management, Bucharest, Romania

Oye Gureje

Affiliation University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Josep Maria Haro

Affiliation Sant Joan de Deu-SSM, Barcelona, Ciber en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), ISCIII, Barcelona, Spain

Chiyi Hu

Affiliation Shenzhen Institute of Mental Health & Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China

Yueqin Huang

Affiliation Institute of Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Elie G. Karam

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology, St. George Hospital University Medical Center, Balamand University, Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Development, Research, Advocacy & Applied Care (IDRAAC), Medical Institute for Neuropsychological Disorders (MIND), Beirut, Lebanon

Norito Kawakami

Affiliation Department of Mental Health, School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Viviane Kovess

Affiliation University of Paris Descartes, EA 4069, MGEN Foundation for Public Health, Paris, France

Daphna Levinson

Affiliation Research & Planning, Mental Health Services Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel

Jose Posada-Villa

Affiliation Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Centro Medico de la Sabana, Bogota, Colombia

Rajesh Sagar

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Toma Tomov

Affiliation New Bulgarian University, Institute for Human Relations, Sofia, Bulgaria

Maria Carmen Viana

Affiliation Section of Psychiatric Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

David R. Williams

Affiliation Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

With the exception of RCK, no other authors have reported competing interests. RCK has been a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, Kaiser Permanente, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Shire Pharmaceuticals, and Wyeth-Ayerst; has served on advisory boards for Eli Lilly & Company and Wyeth-Ayerst; and has had research support for his epidemiological studies from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly & Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Aventis.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: MKN IH NS RCK MA AB GB EB RB GdG RdG SF OG JMH CH YH EGK NK VK DL JPV RS TT MCV DRW. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: MKN IH NS RCK MA AB GB EB RB GdG RdG SF OG JMH CH YH EGK NK VK DL JPV RS TT MCV DRW. Designed the experiments/the study: AB GdG RdG JMH EGK DRW. Analyzed the data: MKN IH MA GB EB RB RdG SF JMH CH YH NK VK JPV RS MCV DRW. Collected data/did experiments for the study: NS RCK AB GdG OG EGK DL JPV TT. Enrolled patients: RCK MA RB GdG OG YH EGK NK VK DL RS MCV. Wrote the first draft of the paper: MKN. Contributed to the writing of the paper: MKN IH RCK MA GB EB RB GdG RdG SF OG JMH YH EGK NK VK RS MCV DRW. Supervised the analysis of the data and reviewed the paper for accuracy in the methods and results: NS. A senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in the United States: RCK. Co-principal investigator for data collected in Mexico: GB. A senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in Belgium: RB. The senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in Italy: GdG. A senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in Shenzhen, China: CH. A senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in China: YH. A senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in Japan: NK. A senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in France: VK. The coordinator and a senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in India: RS. A senior investigator responsible for collecting the survey data in Brazil: MCV. Directed the data collection in South Africa: DRW.