This study aims to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and study their association with various socioeconomic variables. This study include door to door sampling methods and also included a large population compared to previous study. This was a cross-sectional study of the urban population residing in Indore was carried out (n = 2512). MINI plus was administered to all subjects according to the age group.It was found that 24.3% of the subjects were suffering from one or more diagnosable psychiatric disorder. Prevalence of substance use disorders was found to be 14.1% and 2.4% for depressive disorders. Our study is among the very few epidemiological studies with respect to methodological design which evaluates each subject with detailedadministration of MINI. It concluded that one among four were suffering from a psychiatric disorder

Prevalence, psychiatric disorders, India, epidemiological study