title: Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among Turkish Children: The Effects of Impairment and Sociodemographic Correlates.
abstract: This study was designed to assess the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and the impact of impairment criteria on rates of diagnoses in a representative sample of elementary school children from a country in a region. We sampled 419 primary school children by using a one-stage design in Izmir, Turkey. The response rate was 99.5 % and 417 cases were assessed using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children Present and Lifetime Version and a scale to assess the impairment criterion. The results showed that 36.7 % of the sample met DSM-IV criteria independent of impairment and that 14.1 % of the population had one or more DSM-IV disorders when a measure of impairment specific to each diagnosis was considered. The most prevalent disorders were attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and anxiety disorders. This study provided the first estimates of the prevalence of specific DSM-IV-defined psychiatric disorders in Turkish population of children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. eyercan@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Eyüp Sabri
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Ercan
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Manisa Mental Health Hospital, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Öznur
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Bilaç
authors.affiliation: Isparta Maternity and Children's Hospital, Isparta, Turkey.
authors.forename: Taciser
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uysal Özaslan
authors.affiliation: Denizli State Hospital, Denizli, Turkey. ulkuakyol@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Ulku
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Akyol Ardic
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014421:Turkey
keywords: Children; Epidemiology; Impairment; Prevalence; Psychiatric disorders
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