Journal article
The diagnosis of depression in children
Journal of affective disorders, Vol.1(3), pp.213-217
1979
DOI: 10.1016/0165-0327(79)90006-5
PMID: 162504
Abstract
Operational criteria for depression in children were derived from diagnostic criteria designed for adults. These criteria were applied to a series of outpatients and inpatients on a Child Psychiatry Service. Thirteen per cent of girls and 5% of boys admitted to the clinic met the criteria for depression. (For this calculation autistic, brain-damaged and seriously retarded were excluded from the clinic population). The frequencies of criterion symptoms and some related symptoms are reported. Generally the data suggest that significant depression does occur as an independent syndrome in children, it is relatively common in a clinic population and it does not differ obviously from depression in adults.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The diagnosis of depression in children
- Creators
- Samuel KupermanMark A Stewart
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of affective disorders, Vol.1(3), pp.213-217
- DOI
- 10.1016/0165-0327(79)90006-5
- PMID
- 162504
- NLM abbreviation
- J Affect Disord
- ISSN
- 0165-0327
- eISSN
- 1573-2517
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1979
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Record Identifier
- 9984003467202771
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