Reconsidering the Use of Population Health Surveys for Monitoring of Mental Health

Jorge Arias de la Torre   ^{1, 2, 3} , PhD ;   Gemma Vilagut   ^{2, 4} , PhD ;   Amy Ronaldson   ⁵ , PhD ;   Ioannis Bakolis   ⁵ , PhD ;   Alex Dregan   ⁵ , PhD ;   Fernando Navarro-Mateu   ² , PhD ;   Katherine Pérez   ^{2, 6, 7} , PhD ;   Anna Szücs   ⁸ , MD ;   Xavier Bartoll-Roca   ^{6, 7} , PhD ;   Antonio J Molina   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Matilde Elices   ⁹ , PhD ;   Víctor Pérez-Solá   ^{9, 10} , Prof Dr, PhD ;   Vicente Martín   ^{2, 3} , Prof Dr, PhD ;   Antoni Serrano-Blanco   ^{2, 11} , PhD ;   Jose M Valderas   ^{12 *} , Prof Dr, PhD ;   Jordi Alonso   ^{2, 4, 13 *} , Prof Dr, PhD

¹ Care in Long Term Conditions Research Division, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

² Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

³ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Universidad de León, León, Spain

⁴ Health Services Research Group, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

⁵ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, London, United Kingdom

⁶ Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona (ASPB), Barcelona, Spain

⁷ Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB SANT PAU), Barcelona, Spain

⁸ Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore

⁹ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain

¹⁰ Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain

¹¹ Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain

¹² University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

¹³ Department of Medical and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

*these authors contributed equally