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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Murcia, Spain
  2. Co-first/equal authorship.
  3. Secretaría de Salud de la Ciudad de México, Jurisdicción Sanitaria Milpa Alta, Mexico City, Mexico
  4. Co-first/equal authorship.
  5. Yucatan State Mental Health Institute, Merida, Mexico
  6. Yucatan State Mental Health Institute, Merida, Mexico
  7. Center for Evaluation and Surveys Research, National Institute of Public Health (INSP), Cuernavaca, Mexico
  8. Instituto de Matemáticas, Unidad de Cuernavaca, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
  9. Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York
  10. Instituto de Matemáticas, Unidad de Cuernavaca, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico
  11. CNRS-UMI 4584, LaSoL Laboratorio Internacional Solomon Lefschetz, Mexico City, Mexico
  12. Department of Psychiatry, Madrid Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain
  13. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Jimenez Diaz Foundation, Madrid, Spain
  14. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Rey Juan Carlos, Mostoles, Spain
  15. Department of Psychiatry, General Hospital of Villalba, Madrid, Spain
  16. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Infanta Elena, Valdemoro, Spain
  17. CIBERSAM (Centro de Investigacion en Salud Mental), Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain
  18. Universidad Catolica del Maule, Talca, Chile
  19. Department of Psychiatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
  20. Corresponding author: Enrique Baca-García, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Jimenez Diaz Foundation, Av. de los Reyes Católicos, 2, 28040 Madrid, Spain ([email protected]).
  21. Department of Psychiatry, Madrid Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain
  22. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Jimenez Diaz Foundation, Madrid, Spain
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