Robin van Kessel

Aug 5, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Andres Roman-Urrestarazu |Robin van Kessel |Samuele Cortese |Jae Il Shin

Testing the Concerns Regarding the Global Burden of Disease—Reply In Reply In a recent response to our Viewpoint, Cortese et al support our critique of the methodologies used in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies, specifically commenting on Cortese and colleagues’ work on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).1 Articles using GBD data have been extensively published with varying impact in the field of child and adolescent mental health and include previous work on autism by...

Feb 19, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Andres Roman-Urrestarazu |Robin van Kessel

The Global Burden of Disease Epidemiology—When Big Data Impute the Nonexistent Child and adolescent psychiatry epidemiology is one of the most historically researched subfields of psychiatry, with an increased interest in using evidence synthesis and large datasets to determine the incidence and prevalence of mental health conditions and the impact they have on societies and individuals.