Comorbidity for disruptive behavior disorders in psychiatrically hospitalized children.
A variety of instruments were used to compare six groups of inpatient children: pure attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADDH), pure conduct disorder (CD), pure oppositional defiant disorder (OD), ADDH + CD, and ADDH + OD, and a clinical control group who had no DBD diagnosis. Children with ADDH and CD or OD exhibited a greater degree of psychopathology. Children with CD and OD were more similar than different, indicating that perhaps a continuum of pathology exists between these diagnostic classifications.
Soltys
S M
SM
Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri-Columbia 65201.
Kashani
J H
JH
Dandoy
A C
AC
Vaidya
A F
AF
Reid
J C
JC
D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012649:Self Concept