Co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders in child psychiatric patients and nonpatients: a circumplex model. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This study of 106 preadolescent psychiatric inpatients, 101 preadolescent psychiatric outpatients, and 101 preadolescent nonpatients examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and co-occurrence of psychiatric diagnoses. The inpatients and outpatients had significantly more co-occurring diagnoses than the nonpatients. For a given diagnosis there are varying frequencies of co-occurring disorders. The similar structure and prevalence among co-occurring diagnoses in this sample of children fit a circumplex model in which variation among disorders appears to be continuous in the form of a closed circle.

publication date

  • July 1, 1989

Research

keywords

  • Child Behavior Disorders
  • Mental Disorders

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0024369620

PubMed ID

  • 2758803

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 30

issue

  • 4