title: Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in visually impaired children.
abstract: This study was done to measure psychiatric morbidity and associated sociodemographic variables among visually impaired children. 92 students of age range 6 to 20 years from four schools for the blind, in Ranchi, were screened with verbal Hindi translation of General Health Questionnaire 60. Diagnostic Interview Schedule Parent version was applied to establish psychiatric diagnosis on primary caretakers of those who scored above cutoff. Fourteen scored above cut off and psychiatric diagnoses of 8 children were established. The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among visually impaired children was found to be 8.69% No sociodemographic variable was associated with the occurrence of psychiatric illness.
authors.affiliation: Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand 834 006, India. ajay_bakhla@yahoo.co.in
authors.forename: Ajay Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Bakhla
authors.forename: Vinod Kumar
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: Vijay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: Sujit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sarkhel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009017:Morbidity; D015995:Prevalence; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019987:Persons with Visual Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult