Journal article
Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: Psychiatric Disorders in the Second Three Months
The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.185(6), pp.394-401
06/1997
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199706000-00006
PMID: 9205426
Abstract
Psychiatric disorders may be common after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children, yet there is a dearth of prospective studies examining this problem. Fifty children aged 6 to 14, hospitalized after TBI, were assessed soon after TBI regarding preinjury psychiatric, behavioral, adaptive, and family functioning, family psychiatric history status and injury severity. The outcome measure was the presence of a “novel” psychiatric disorder (not present before the injury) during the second 3 months after the injury. Forty-two subjects were reassessed at 6 months. Severity of injury, family psychiatric history, and family function predicted a novel psychiatric disorder. Among children suffering a mild/moderate injury, those with preinjury lifetime psychiatric disorders were no longer (as they had been in the first 3 months) at higher risk than those without such a lifetime history. Thus, there appeared to be children, identifiable through clinical assessment, at increased risk for novel psychiatric disorders after TBI.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: Psychiatric Disorders in the Second Three Months
- Creators
- JEFFREY MAX - 1 Department of Psychiatry, 1876 JPP, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa 52242. 2 Cedar Centre, Cedar Rapids, IowaSCOTT LINDGRENDONALD ROBINWILBUR SMITHYUTAKA SATOPHILIP MATTHEIS1CARLOS CASTILLOJULIE STIERWALT
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.185(6), pp.394-401
- Publisher
- Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/00005053-199706000-00006
- PMID
- 9205426
- ISSN
- 0022-3018
- eISSN
- 1539-736X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/1997
- Academic Unit
- Radiology; Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Record Identifier
- 9984051882002771
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