Establishment of a Public Mental Health Database for Research Purposes in the Ferrara Province: Development and Preliminary Evaluation Study

Maria Ferrara   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, PhD ;   Elisabetta Gentili   ⁴ , MA ;   Martino Belvederi Murri   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Riccardo Zese   ⁵ , PhD ;   Marco Alberti   ⁶ , PhD ;   Giorgia Franchini   ⁷ , PhD ;   Ilaria Domenicano   ¹ , PhD ;   Federica Folesani   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Cristina Sorio   ² , MPH ;   Lorenzo Benini   ² , BA ;   Paola Carozza   ² , MD ;   Julian Little   ⁸ , PhD ;   Luigi Grassi   ^{1, 2} , MD

¹ Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

² Integrated Department of Mental Health and Pathological Addictions, Ferrara Local Health Trust, Ferrara, Italy

³ Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

⁴ Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

⁵ Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

⁶ Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

⁷ Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

⁸ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, QC, Canada