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Mental disorders have an immense impact on individuals and their families pose a growing challenge to the healthcare systems throughout the world. The aging population and the trend of social changes such as increasing divorce rates, changing family structures and economic pressures, pose great challenges to the mental well-being of the people of Singapore.
IMH has embarked on a nationwide program: The Singapore Mental Health Study (SMHS) that brings together international and local expertise for an extensive and comprehensive assessment of the Nation's mental health.
The project aims to:
- Conduct a population based study to establish the positive and negative mental health status of the Singaporean population
- Assess the spectrum and distribution of different types of mental illnesses across the three major ethnic groups
- Develop and validate a tool for the assessment of positive mental well being for the Singapore population
- Describe the current use of mental health services (both Western and traditional services), level of unmet needs, and identify facilitators and barriers to mental health care and the financial, social and personal costs associated with mental illness.
This project involves collaborations between multiple stakeholders and experts from some leading national and international institutions.
This three-year 6.9-million dollar (SGD) program is funded by the Singapore Millennium Foundation and Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore.
Principal Investigator:
Associate Professor Chong Siow Ann, Institute of Mental Health
Co-Principal Investigators:
Associate Professor Mabel Yap, Ministry of Health
Dr Lim Yee Wei , RAND Health
Associate Professor Kwok Kian Woon, Nanyang Technological University |
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