Temporal Trends in the Incidence of Depressive Disorders Across China, Japan, and South Korea: an Age-Period-Cohort Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

This study aimed to examine trends in depressive disorders incidence and associations with age, period, and birth cohort across China, Japan, and South Korea between 1990 and 2019. Data were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Age-period-cohort (APC) model was used to evaluate effects of age, period, and cohort on the depressive disorders incidence. From 1990 to 2019, the age-standardized incidence of depressive disorders increased by 6.4