Common mental disorders in São Paulo city, 2003-2015: population-based serial cross-sectional panel studies

The total number of participants in this investigation was 1,565 in 2003, 2,019 in 2008 and 3,169 in 2015. In the adjusted analysis, there was a reduction in the prevalence of common mental disorders between 2003 and 2015 in females aged between 20 and 59 years old (PR 0.68; 95%CI 0.56; 0.84). In the same period, there was no significant variation among male individuals aged 20 to 59 (PR 1.25; 95%CI 0.86; 1.82), nor among females aged 60 or over (PR 0.95; 95%CI 0.69; 1.32) and males aged 60 or over (PR 0.68; 95%CI 0.44; 1.07).