Résumé
Objective To investigate the relations between psychiatric disability and co-morbid disability caused by injury,severity of the disabilities,as well as the unmet health care need among people living with both disabilities.Methods Data collected through both the Second China National Sample Survey on Disabilities in 2006 and the Follow-up Studies in 2009,were utilized.Sampling weights were considered to appropriately estimate situations in the total Chinese population.Results Among people with psychiatric disability,2.7％ of them were affected by other injurycaused disabilities as visual,hearing,speech,psychical and intellectual disabilities.Among people with disability that caused by injuries,1.8％ of them were living with psychiatric disability as well.The prevalence rates of psychiatric disability and injury caused disability were as 0.94％ and 0.63％,respectively.More than half of the co-morbid people were living with profound disabilities while 46.32％ of the people living with both disabilities developed co-morbid disabilities in the same year.Data from the follow-up program showed that 56.25％ of the people living with co-morbid disabilities did not receive any psychiatric treatment which were in need.Conclusion There seemed a close but bidirectional relationship existed between the mental disorders and injuries that calling for better mental health services provided for people with psychiatric disabilities.