Psychiatric disorder in deaf and hearing impaired children and young people: a prevalence study.
Psychiatric screening questionnaires for deaf children and adolescents were piloted in a group of 62 children, aged 11-16 years, attending a residential school. The questionnaires, Parent's Checklist (PCL) and Teacher's Checklist (TCL) were then used to screen a group of 93 children attending one Deaf School and three Hearing Impaired Units (HIU). Psychiatric assessments were conducted with a highly structured diagnostic interview, the Child Assessment Schedule (CAS). The interview with signing deaf children was conducted with a sign language interpreter. The prevalence of psychiatric disorder in the whole group was 50.3%, 42.4% in the group attending the Deaf School and 60.9% for the group attending the HIUs. An aetiological model of psychiatric disorder in this group is proposed.
Department of Mental Health Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, U.K.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003145:Communication Methods, Total; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003638:Deafness / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D004519:Education, Special; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D010552:Personality Assessment