title: Characteristics of children admitted to inpatient community mental health center.
abstract: Comparison of 100 children, aged 7 to 12 years, admitted to an inpatient service of a community mental health center (CMHC) with a matched control group of 100 children from the outpatient department of the same CMHC showed that a combination of several factors (rather than a single factor) led to inpatient admission. These factors included differences in Initial symptoms, diagnosis in DSM-III, axes I, II, and III, and family factors.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002648:Child; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy