title: School refusal: a 15-20-year follow-up study of 35 Swedish urban children.
abstract: Results from a 15-20-year follow-up study of 35 7-12-year-old children with school refusal and 35 age- and sex-matched comparison children are reported. The school refusal cases had applied for out-patient adult psychiatric care more often than comparison children. Also they had fewer children of their own. In respect of overall social adjustment and severe psychiatric disorders requiring in-patient treatment, there were no important differences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Youth Psychiatry, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Flakierska
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lindström
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gillberg
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D012803:Sick Role; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013548:Sweden