Mental Health: key data sources
The data shown in the previous pages is drawn from routine surveys and datasets listed below. For further information on these sources please click on link provided.
ScotPHO Profiles for Scotland (including mental health profiles)
Scottish Burden of Disease study
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2013
Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory
Psychiatric morbidity among adults living in private households
Public Mental Health Implementation Centre
Public Health Scotland Children and Young People Mental Health Indicators
Public Health Scotland Adult Mental Health Indicators
Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)
- A focus on adolescent mental health and well-being in Europe, central Asia and Canada. Health Behaviour in School-aged Children international report from the 2021/2022 survey. Volume 1. WHO, 2023.
- Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s health and wellbeing. WHO, 2023.
- Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differences in young people's health and well-being. WHO, 2016.
- HBSC Briefing Paper 2: HBSC Briefing Paper 2: Mental well-being among schoolchildren in Scotland: age and gender patterns, trends and cross-national comparisons, 2003, (124Kb)
- HBSC Briefing Paper 4: HBSC Briefing Paper 4: Mental Health and well-being in the context of school: Young people in Scotland, 2004
- HBSC Briefing Paper 8: HBSC Briefing Paper 8: Bullying and fighting among schoolchildren in Scotland, 2004
- HBSC Briefing Paper 10: HBSC Briefing Paper 10: Bullying: Health, Well-being and Risk Behaviours, 2004
- HBSC Briefing Paper 14: HBSC Briefing Paper 14: Mental well-being of young people in Scotland: 1994-2006, 2007
- HBSC Briefing Paper 24: HBSC Briefing Paper 24: Mental and emotional well-being in Scottish adolescents, 2016
- HBSC Briefing Paper 25: HBSC Briefing Paper 25: Self-confidence and social well-being in Scottish adolescents, 2016.
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