Behaviour disorder in pre-school children in Hong Kong. A two-stage epidemiological study.

Autor: Luk, S L, Leung, P W, Bacon-Shone, J, Chung, S Y, Lee, P W, Chen, S, Ng, R, Lieh-Mak, F, Ko, L, Wong, V C
Zdroj: British Journal of Psychiatry; Feb91, Vol. 158, p213-221, 9p
Abstrakt: A representative sample of 855 Hong-Kong Chinese children aged 36-48 months were assessed using the BSQ and the PBCL. Good reliability for both instruments were found. For the BSQ and PBCL, 12.75% and 27.5% were above the cut-off points of 10+ and 12+ respectively and 5.9% were above both cut-off points. In the second stage, 234 subjects were recruited by stratified random sampling according to the results of the screening state. A clinician interviewed the parent, child and teacher before making a diagnosis. The prevalence of behaviour disorder was: nil, 53.7%; dubious, 23.1%; mild, 18.0%; moderate, 4.5%; and severe, 0.7%. There were significantly more boys in the categories mild, moderate and severe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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