PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WEST BENGAL

Psychiatric morbidity in primary rural school children (n=460) was studied with the use of Rutter-B-Scale, a screening instrument. Overall prevalence was found to be 33.3 percent. Conduct disorder was found to be the commonest diagnostic category with a prevalence rate of 13.5%. This was followed by...

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Autor principal: Banerjee, Tapas
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584059
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description Psychiatric morbidity in primary rural school children (n=460) was studied with the use of Rutter-B-Scale, a screening instrument. Overall prevalence was found to be 33.3 percent. Conduct disorder was found to be the commonest diagnostic category with a prevalence rate of 13.5%. This was followed by mental retardation with a rate of 5.4%, enuresis 4%, simple disturbance of activity and attention 3.1%, and relationship problem 2.7%. The results have been discussed in a cross-cultural perspective.
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spelling pubmed-29670972011-05-16 PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WEST BENGAL Banerjee, Tapas Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Psychiatric morbidity in primary rural school children (n=460) was studied with the use of Rutter-B-Scale, a screening instrument. Overall prevalence was found to be 33.3 percent. Conduct disorder was found to be the commonest diagnostic category with a prevalence rate of 13.5%. This was followed by mental retardation with a rate of 5.4%, enuresis 4%, simple disturbance of activity and attention 3.1%, and relationship problem 2.7%. The results have been discussed in a cross-cultural perspective. Medknow Publications 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC2967097/ /pubmed/21584059 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WEST BENGAL
title PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WEST BENGAL
title_full PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WEST BENGAL
title_fullStr PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WEST BENGAL
title_full_unstemmed PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WEST BENGAL
title_short PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY AMONG RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN WEST BENGAL
title_sort psychiatric morbidity among rural primary school children in west bengal
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584059
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