Peking University, June 15, 2017: Hosted by Peking University Sixth Hospital Department of Social Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and sponsored by Tianjin Anding Hospital, the workshop on paper writing for Chinese mental disorder epidemiological investigation (or CMHS Project) was launched on May 27. Peking University Sixth Hospital faculty and students undertaking this project and key people and research consultants from 9 cooperative institutions and 2 coordinating organizations attended the meeting.

At the meeting, Professor Huang Yueqin, the principal investigator, summarized the CMHS project and introduced the overall arrangement for paper writing. Associate researcher Liu Zhaorui described the action plan for paper writing and data analysis. The 11 authors of the first batch of papers reported on their ideas and preliminary findings respectively, and the participants had a heated discussion about paper writing.

Chinese mental disorder epidemiological investigation is the first national epidemiological survey of mental disorders in history. This project is a milestone and its publications will become prominent. So far, paper writing for the CMHS project has been fully initiated.