DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-8467-1
title: Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017: Special Licence Access
title: Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity, 1993-
title: MHCYP

description: The &lt;i&gt;Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity in Great Britain&lt;/i&gt; aim to provide up-to-date information about the prevalence of psychiatric problems among people in Great Britain, as well as their associated social disabilities and use of services. The series began in 1993, and so far consists of the following surveys:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;OPCS Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity: Private Household Survey, 1993&lt;/i&gt;, covering 10,000 adults aged 16-64 years living in private households;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;a supplementary sample of 350 people aged 16-64 with psychosis, living in private households, which was conducted in 1993-1994 and then repeated in 2000;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;OPCS Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity: Institutions Sample, 1994&lt;/i&gt;, which covered 1,200 people aged 16-64 years living in institutions specifically catering for people with mental illness;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;OPCS Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity among Homeless People, 1994&lt;/i&gt;, which covered 1,100 homeless people aged 16-64 living in hostels for the homeless or similar institutions. The sample also included 'rough sleepers';&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;ONS Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity among Prisoners in England and Wales, 1997&lt;/i&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain, 1999&lt;/i&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Psychiatric Morbidity among Adults Living in Private Households, 2000&lt;/i&gt;, which repeated the 1993 survey;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mental Health of Young People Looked After by Local Authorities in Great Britain, 2001-2002&lt;/i&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain, 2004&lt;/i&gt;; this survey repeated the 1999 survey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, 2007&lt;/i&gt;; this survey repeated the 2000 private households survey. The Information Centre for Health and Social Care took over management of the survey in 2007.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, 2014: Special Licence Access&lt;/i&gt;; this survey repeated the 2000 and 2007 surveys. NHS Digital are now responsible for the surveys, which are now sometimes also referred to as the 'National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing'. &lt;b&gt;Users should note that from 2014, the APMS is subject to more restrictive Special Licence Access conditions, due to the sensitive nature of the information gathered from respondents&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017: Special Licence&lt;/span&gt;; this survey repeated the 1999 and 2004 surveys, but only covering England. &lt;b&gt;Users should note that this study is subject to more restrictive Special Licence Access conditions, due to the sensitive nature of the information gathered from respondents&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;The UK Data Archive holds data from all the surveys mentioned above apart from the 1993-1994/2000 supplementary samples of people with psychosis. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Further information may be found on the &lt;a href="https://mentalhealthsurveys.org/" title="Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey series"&gt;Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey series&lt;/a&gt; website; the NHS Digital &lt;a href="http://content.digital.nhs.uk/article/3739/National-Study-of-Health-and-Wellbeing" title="Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey"&gt;Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey&lt;/a&gt; webpage; and the NatCen Social Research &lt;a href="http://www.natcen.ac.uk/our-research/research/adult-psychiatric-morbidity-survey/" title="Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey"&gt;Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey&lt;/a&gt; webpage.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;p class="x_x_MsoNormal"&gt;The &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Survey of the Mental Health of Children and Young People, 2017&lt;/span&gt; (MHCYP) is the third in a series of national surveys of the mental health of children and young people. Previous surveys were carried out in 1999 and 2004. The latest survey was funded by the Department of Health and commissioned by NHS Digital. This survey was carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen Social Research), Office for National Statistics and Youth in Mind.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The 2017 survey collected information about mental health and wellbeing from a stratified probability sample of children and young people living in England and registered with a GP. Information was collected on 9,117 children aged 2 to 19 between January and October 2017. The survey combines reports from children, their parents and teachers (depending on the age of the selected child). This survey for the first time provides findings on the prevalence of the mental disorder in 2 to 4-year-olds and spans the transition into adulthood by covering 17 to 19-year-olds. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The main aims of the survey were:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;to collect robust data on a range of topics relating to the mental health of children and young people;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;to estimate what proportion of children and young people in England are living with a mental disorder (and the types of mental disorders experienced);&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;produce trends in disorders through comparisons with previous surveys in the series&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;enable the circumstances of children and young people with different mental disorders to be compared with those of children and young people without;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;improve understanding of the state of children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;inform the design of mental health services for children and young people.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further information about the study can be found on the NHS digital webpage &lt;a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-of-children-and-young-people-in-england/2017/2017" target="_blank"&gt;Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017 [PAS]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;