Children and adolescents with Tourette’s disorder in the USA versus Argentina: behavioral differences may reflect cultural factors
Autor: | María Beatriz Moyano, Angeles Matos, Laura Ibanez-Gomez, Barbara J. Coffey, Gustavo Irazoqui, Resham Gellatly, Amanda L. Zwilling, Stephanie Samar, Rafael Kichic, Marta Braña-Berríos, Eva Petkova |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
Male Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Tics Global Assessment of Functioning Argentina CBCL Comorbidity Severity of Illness Index behavioral disciplines and activities Tourette syndrome mental disorders Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Child Psychiatry Retrospective Studies General Medicine medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders United States Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Mood Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Tic Disorders Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology Tourette Syndrome Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 22:701-707 |
ISSN: | 1435-165X 1018-8827 |
Popis: | To explore behavioral differences as possible cultural factors in presentation of psychiatric comorbidity in two clinically referred, consecutively ascertained samples of youth with Tourette's disorder (TD) from New York and Buenos Aires. Subjects were evaluated between 2002 and 2010 at the Tics and Tourette's Clinical and Research Program at the New York University Child Study Center in New York and the Interdisciplinary Center for Tourette's, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Associated Disorders (CITTTA)/Institute of Cognitive Psychology (INECO) in Buenos Aires. Demographic, diagnostic, tic severity (Yale Global Tic Severity Scale; YGTSS), clinical (Child Behavior Check List-Parent version; CBCL), and global functioning (Global Assessment of Functioning; GAF) data were compared using descriptive statistics. The sample included 111 subjects ages 6-17 years, who met DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for TD. Findings revealed that the BA sample (n = 35) was significantly older at initial evaluation at the tic specialty clinic, and had higher frequency of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), mood and non-OCD anxiety disorders than the NY sample (n = 76). There were no differences in gender distribution, age at tic onset or TD diagnosis, tic severity, proportion with current diagnoses of OCD/OC behavior or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), CBCL internalizing, externalizing, or total problems scores, YGTSS scores, or GAF scores. The observed similarities in demographic features, clinical presentation, rates of ADHD and OCD/OCB, and global impairment may reflect similar phenomenology and illness-related characteristics of TD in these referred youth. Differences in age at initial specialty clinic evaluation and rates of ODD, mood and non-OCD anxiety disorders may need further exploration before they may be considered to reflect cultural factors. Because of these limitations (e.g. small sample size), these results can be regarded only as preliminary. |
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