title: Prevalence of reactive attachment disorder in a deprived population.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is associated with early childhood maltreatment and has unknown population prevalence beyond infancy.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To estimate RAD prevalence in a deprived population of children.
  
  
  METHODS
  All 1646 children aged 6-8 years old in a deprived sector of an urban UK centre were screened for RAD symptoms. Parents of high and low scorers were interviewed using semi-structured interviews probing for psychopathology and individuals likely to have RAD were offered face-to-face assessment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Questionnaire data were available from 92.8% of teachers and 65.8% of parents. Assessments were conducted with 50% of those invited and missing data were imputed--based on the baseline data--for the rest. We calculated that there would be 23 children with definite RAD diagnoses, suggesting that the prevalence of RAD in this population was 1.40% (95% CI 0.94-2.10).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this deprived general population, RAD was not rare.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Mental Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK. Helen.Minnis@glasgow.ac.uk
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Minnis
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Macmillan
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pritchett
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Butcher
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sim
authors.forename: Katie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Baynham
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gillberg
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015995:Prevalence; D019962:Reactive Attachment Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology; D014504:Urban Health