A study of psychiatrically normal children in a hospital based child guidance clinic.
A total of 1330 children who attended a hospital-based child guidance clinic in last three years were studied retrospectively. 7.37% of these were found to have no psychiatric disorder. Epilepsy and scholastic backwardness without any psychiatric disorder, together constituted 70.41% of this group. Children referred to a child guidance clinic require proper assessment to detect psychiatrically normal children who would otherwise receive unnecessary label of psychiatric disorder and treatment.
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D002648:Child; D002661:Child Guidance Clinics; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012017:Referral and Consultation