This article is part of the supplement: International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 2nd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour .

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Affective temperament in the general population: The L.E.B.A.N.O.N. study

Elie Karam^1,2,3, Mariana Salamoun³ and Zeina Mneimneh

¹  Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Balamand University, Beirut, Lebanon

²  Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, St Georges Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

³  Institute for Development Research and Applied Care, Beirut, Lebanon

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from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 2nd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 17–20 November 2005

Annals of General Psychiatry 2006, 5(Suppl 1):S10doi:10.1186/1744-859X-5-S1-S10

Published:	28 February 2006

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As many others, the Institute for Development Research and Applied Care (IDRAC) has chosen the Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis Pisa Paris and San Diego Auto-questionnaire (TEMPS-A) [1] for the national assessment of affective temperament on 2857 Lebanese adults as part of the national Lebanese Evaluation of the Burden of Ailments and Needs Of the Nation study (L.E.B.A.N.O.N study). This national study includes two components: the L.E.B.A.N.O.N World Mental Health surveys [2] where the Arabic Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI 2000) was the instrument used for the diagnostic assessment of mental health disorders (Depression, Mania, Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, Substance Use, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, etc), risk factors, treatment, physical condition, demographic variables, etc., and the L.E.B.A.N.O.N-TEMP where the instrument used was the Lebanese-Arabic version of the TEMPS-A [3].