Child Behavior Disorders - Epidemiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Behavioral and emotional problems in children with sickle cell disease and healthy siblings: Multiple informants, multiple measures.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Behavioral and emotional problems in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) may be related to disease factors, or to socio-demographic factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of behavioral and emotional problems ... Read more...

Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures.

17 Nov 2009 Few studies have utilized both categorical and dimensional measures of psychopathology in children with epilepsy. We evaluated 173 children (88 males, 85 females; mean age 11.7y [SD 1.8]; range 9-14y) who had epilepsy (generalized 36%, partial 61%) ... Read more...

Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Children from food-insecure families (ie, families that lack access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food) are at risk for developmental problems. Food insecurity disproportionately occurs among low-socioeconomic status (SES) and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Child Behavior Disorders - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Behavioral and emotional problems in children with sickle cell disease and healthy siblings: Multiple informants, multiple measures. 13 Dec 2009
• Prevalence of psychopathology in childhood epilepsy: categorical and dimensional measures. 17 Nov 2009
• Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children. 26 Sep 2009
• Sequelae due to bacterial meningitis among African children: a systematic literature review. 12 Sep 2009
• Prevalence and predictors of emotional and behavioural functioning of children where a parent has cancer: a multinational study. 30 Aug 2009
• Childhood bullying behavior and later psychiatric hospital and psychopharmacologic treatment: findings from the Finnish 1981 birth cohort study. 30 Aug 2009
• Problem behavior, parental stress and enuresis. 18 Aug 2009
• Editorial comment. 18 Aug 2009
• The psychosocial effects of deployment on military children. 30 Jul 2009
• Are there stable factors in preadolescent girls' externalizing behaviors? 30 Jul 2009
• CSWS-related autistic regression versus autistic regression without CSWS. 30 Jul 2009
• Meta-analysis of neurobehavioral outcomes in very preterm and/or very low birth weight children. 25 Jul 2009
• Frontal and temporal volumes in Childhood Absence Epilepsy. 12 Jul 2009
• Mental health and child developmental problems: the "not-so-new morbidity". 29 Jun 2009
• [Correlation of snoring with attention deficit and hyperactivity-impulsivity in school age children from Changsha City] 29 Jun 2009
• Functioning at school age of moderately preterm children born at 32 to 36 weeks' gestational age. 29 Jun 2009
• Apolipoprotein E genotype modifies the risk of behavior problems after infant cardiac surgery. 29 Jun 2009
• Sleep-disordered breathing and behaviors of inner-city children with asthma. 29 Jun 2009
• Differentiating early-onset persistent versus childhood-limited conduct problem youth. 29 Jun 2009
• Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders as predictors of young adult disorders. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Child Behavior Disorders'

Definition: Disturbances considered to be pathological based on age and stage appropriateness, e.g., conduct disturbances and anaclitic depression. This concept does not include psychoneuroses, psychoses, or personality disorders with fixed patterns.

Descriptor UI: D002653

Alternative terms: Child Behavior Disorders; Behavior Disorders, Child; Disorders, Child Behavior;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.550.300;

Technical Notes: check also tag CHILD or specific