Te Rau Hinengaro - New Zealand Mental Health Survey - Health and Disability Intelligence

Health & Disability Intelligence
Te Rau Hinengaro - New Zealand Mental Health Survey

Information for survey participants

The Te Rau Hinengaro - New Zealand Mental Health Survey, is designed to estimate the prevalence, severity, impairment and treatment of major mental health disorders. This survey is linked to one that has been fielded in many other countries in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The questionnaire used is a New Zealand adapted version of the WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview, a fully structured lay-administered psychiatric diagnostic interview.

Te Rau Hinengaro is a CAPI (computer assisted face-to-face interview) administered survey. Its target population is the total usually resident adult population (16 years and older) residing in permanent private dwellings. In 2002/03 a sample of 13,000 people was selected, with two booster samples for Māori and Pacific peoples. Data were collected over a 12-month period. The intention is to repeat Te Rau Hinengaro every 10 years.

The final report for Te Rau Hinengaro was published in September 2006.

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