title: Use of the international classification of diseases-10, (ICD 10) to recognise pervasively hyperactive children in a child-guidance clinic: feasibility and validity.
abstract: The tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 10) was used to identify psychiatric problems in a provincial child-guidance clinic population. Categorisation by degree of hyperactivity produced groups that differed in terms of variables that were independent of the diagnostic criteria. ICD 10 was found to be a short, precise and manageable schedule which facilitated reliable categorisation of a group of children with mixed disorders of conduct and hyperkinesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Developmental Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yapa
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Haque
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002661:Child Guidance Clinics; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results