Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia represented the highest proportion of those treated in the psychiatric hospital in Barbados in 2007. Also common were mental health conditions relating to psychoactive substance misuse.
Neuropsychiatric disorders contributed an estimated 22.8 per cent of the global burden of disease in 2008. In 2011 the suicide rate for males was 1.4 per 100,000 people. There is no data on the suicide rate for females.
