title: The Pittsburgh Girls Study: overview and initial findings.
abstract: The Pittsburgh Girls Study is a longitudinal, community-based study of 2,451 girls who were initially recruited when they were between the ages of 5 and 8 years. The primary aim of the study was testing developmental models of conduct disorder, major depressive disorder, and their co-occurrence in girls. In the current article, we summarize the published findings from the past 5 years of the PGS and place those results in the context of what it known to date about developmental psychopathology in girls. Key results suggest that DSM-IV mental disorders tend to have an insidious onset often beginning with subsyndromal symptom manifestation, and that there appear to be shared and unique developmental precursors to disorder in subgroups of girls based on race and poverty.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA. kkeenan@yoda.bsd.uchicago.edu
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Keenan
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hipwell
authors.forename: Tammy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stepp
authors.forename: Magda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stouthamer-Loeber
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loeber
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McTigue
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015897:Comorbidity; D019955:Conduct Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010414:Pennsylvania / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012931:Social Environment