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An online mental health questionnaire was designed for UK Biobank participants to expand its potential.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472419001005_sec_a2\" sec-type=\"other\">\n                    <jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Describe the development, implementation and results of this questionnaire.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472419001005_sec_a3\" sec-type=\"methods\">\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An expert working group designed the questionnaire, using established measures where possible, and consulting a patient group. Operational criteria were agreed for defining likely disorder and risk states, including lifetime depression, mania\/hypomania, generalised anxiety disorder, unusual experiences and self-harm, and current post-traumatic stress and hazardous\/harmful alcohol use.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472419001005_sec_a4\" sec-type=\"results\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 157 366 completed online questionnaires were available by August 2017. Participants were aged 45\u201382 (53% were \u226565 years) and 57% women. Comparison of self-reported diagnosed mental disorder with a contemporary study shows a similar prevalence, despite respondents being of higher average socioeconomic status. Lifetime depression was a common finding, with 24% (37 434) of participants meeting criteria and current hazardous\/harmful alcohol use criteria were met by 21% (32 602), whereas other criteria were met by less than 8% of the participants. There was extensive comorbidity among the syndromes. Mental disorders were associated with a high neuroticism score, adverse life events and long-term illness; addiction and bipolar affective disorder in particular were associated with measures of deprivation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472419001005_sec_a5\" sec-type=\"conclusions\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The UK Biobank questionnaire represents a very large mental health survey in itself, and the results presented here show high face validity, although caution is needed because of selection bias. 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