Psychiatric epidemiology of child and adolescent disorders

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• Bjornesson S (1974) Epidemiological investigation of mental disorders of children in Reykjavik, Iceland. Scand J Psychol 15:244–254[Medline]
• Brandenburg NA, Friedman RM, Silver SE: (1990) The epidemiology of childhood psychiatric disorders: prevalence findings from recent studies. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 29:76–83[Medline]
• Connell HM,(1982) Irvine L, Rodney J: Psychiatric disorder in Queensland primary schoolchildren. Aust Paediatr J 18:177–180[Medline]
• Costello EJ: (1989) Developments in child psychiatric epidemiology: an epidemiologic study of behavior characteristics in children. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 28:836–841[Medline]
• Gould MS, Wunsch-Hitzig R, Dohrenwend BP: Formulation of hypotheses about the prevalence, treatment, and prognostic significance of psychiatric disorders in children in the United States, in Mental Illness in the United States: Epidemiologic Estimates. Edited by Dohrenwend BP, Dohrenwend BS, Gould MS, Link B, Neugebauer R, Wunsch-Hitzig R. New York, Praeger, 1980, pp 9–45
• Lapouse R, Monk MA (1958) An epidemiologic study of behavior characteristics in children. Am J Public Health 48:1134–1144
• Leslie SA(1974) Psychiatric disorder in the young adolescents of an industrial town. Br J Psychiatry 125:113–124[Medline]
• Links PS: Community surveys of the prevalence of childhood psychiatric disorders: a review. Child Dev 1983; 54:531–548[Medline]
• Kastrup M(1976) Psychic disorders among pre-school children in a geographically delimited area of Aarhus county, Denmark: an epidemiological study. Acta Psychiatr Scand 54:29–42[Medline]
• Roberts RE, Attkisson CC, Rosenblatt A. Prevalence of psychopathology among children and adolescents. Am J Psychiatry 1998;155(6):715–25.Text
• Rutter M: Isle of Wight revisited: twenty-five years of child psychiatric epidemiology. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1989; 28:633–653[Medline]
• Verhulst FC(1995) A review of community studies, in The Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. Edited by Verhulst FC, Koot HM. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, pp 146–177

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