Psychiatric consultations in a pediatric hospital.
The authors conducted a study of 30 hospitalized children who were referred for psychiatric consultation and 60 hospitalized children who were not. They studied the medical charts of these children and administered a questionnaire including a checklist of behavioral symptoms to their parents. More psychopathology was found in the children referred for consultation, but about 20 percent of the children not referred also showed a high degree of psychopathology. Factors found to be associated with referral for psychiatric consultation were older age, longer hospital stay, many previous hospitalizations, and ambiguous diagnoses.
D000367:Age Factors; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006782:Hospitals, Special; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D008824:Michigan; D010290:Parents; D010359:Patient Readmission; D011379:Prognosis; D011570:Psychiatry; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012737:Sex Factors