To the Editor We have discovered an error in our questionnaire underlying the analyses of the article titled “Accuracy of Reports of Lifetime Mental and Physical Disorders: Results From the Baltimore Epidemiological Catchment Area Study.”¹

The error was discovered internally in the process of reviewing the questionnaire for each wave. We found that the wave 4 lifetime diagnoses for obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia, and alcohol use disorder were based on reports of these disorders since wave 3 and not the whole lifetime. This has likely led to some underreporting of lifetime disorders at wave 4. However, the substantive results of the study are valid because the cumulative lifetime prevalence estimates at wave 3 for most of these disorders were significantly larger than the prevalence estimates based on wave 3 lifetime reports alone. The wave 4 lifetime diagnoses for other disorders covered the whole lifetime.

致编辑，我们在调查表的标题为“终生精神和身体疾病报告的准确性：巴尔的摩流行病学流域研究的结果”的调查表中发现了一个错误。^1个

该错误是在检查每个wave的调查表的过程中在内部发现的。我们发现，第4浪的强迫症，恐慌症，社交恐惧症和饮酒障碍的终生诊断基于第3浪以来的这些疾病的报告，而不是整个生命周期的报告。这可能导致了第4浪中的终生疾病报告不足，但是，该研究的实质性结果是有效的，因为对于大多数此类疾病，第3浪中的累积终生患病率估计值明显大于基于第3浪终生的患病率估计值。仅报告。第四波终生诊断涵盖其他疾病，涵盖了整个终生。