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Child psychiatric disorders: prevalence and perspectives
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|December 1, 1985
Summary
Child psychiatric epidemiology is crucial for understanding community mental health. This review covers prevalence, correlates, and clinical implications for child disorders, guiding future research and interventions.
Area of Science:
- Child Psychiatry
- Epidemiology
- Community Mental Health
Background:
- Epidemiology offers administrative and scientific applications for child mental health.
- Key issues include prevalence, incidence, defining deviance, instrument psychometrics, sampling, data sources, and result generalizability.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review child psychiatric epidemiology, focusing on community prevalence surveys.
- To discuss major issues, current findings, correlates, and clinical implications.
- To suggest future research directions in child mental health.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of child psychiatric epidemiology.
- Analysis of prevalence estimates for various child disorders.
- Examination of correlates such as sex, age, social class, and family/school factors.
Main Results:
- Prevalence estimates for general maladjustment, conduct, neurotic, hyperactivity, and depressive disorders are reviewed.
- Correlates of child psychiatric disorders include demographic, familial, and school-related factors.
- Clinical implications emphasize comprehensive assessment and targeted interventions.
Conclusions:
- Utilizing multiple data sources and comprehensive assessments are vital for effective child psychiatric treatment.
- Future research should focus on correlates of disorder duration and conduct randomized clinical trials for prevention and treatment programs.