Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders Among Preschool and School Children and Adolescent in Egypt
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Child Behavior Disorders
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
- Enrollment
- 400
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- measure the prevalence of DSM 5 psychiatric disorders in the community sample of school children in Assiut government.
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Pediatric, developmental and mental health problems are more common than renal, cardiac and renal problems.
Compartmental problems were often conceptualised across two broad spectrums: internalising intrapersonal problems like anxiety, depression and withdrawal and externalising problems such as Interpersonal problems such as hyperactivity and aggression.
Mental disorders with long-term consequences can result in children and adolescents, undermining health compliance and reducing societies' ability to be safe and productive. As, children and adolescent have long-term deteriorating effects of mental health problems are often serious.
Early detection and identification of problems are in the best interest of children, adolescents, their families, and the community as a whole. All three are important.
how epidemiology can help our understanding of children and adolescent mental health: the burden of the community, measurement and tracking highly significant.
This study will display the first large-scale study of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in the Egypt . to provide services, including prevention and intervention based on evidence of mental health, a population-representative child survey and adolescent mental estimates disorders were needed urgently
Investigators
Gellan Karamalllah Ramadan Ahmed
lecturer, resarcher OF Neurology and Psychiatry department
Assiut University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •age of children (2-18 years)
- •both males and females.
- •living in Egypt.
Exclusion Criteria
- •unwilling parent to recruited in the study.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
measure the prevalence of DSM 5 psychiatric disorders in the community sample of school children in Assiut government.
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
by using The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL):It consists of 113 items, the parents complete it to detect emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents .It includes open-ended items covering physical problems, concerns, and strengths. The CBCL/6-18 yields scores on internalizing, externalizing, and total problems as well as scores on DSM-5 related scales.It is providing a total behaviour problem score and two second order factor scores for internalizing problems (anxious/depressed, somatic complaints, withdrawn/depressed) and externalizing behaviour (rule breaking behaviour and aggressive problems).
measure of risk factor of DSM 5 psychiatric disorders in the community sample of school children in Assiut government.
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Patients were subjected to a full psychiatric and medical assessment at the beginning of the study. A semistructured form was prepared by researchers to detect sociodemographic and clinical variables of the patients, and the medical history of the patients were reviewed. Information gathered included age, sex, birth order, pregnancy problems, delivery type, birth complications, delay of speech development, delay of motor development, family history of consanguinity