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A Survey of Psychiatrically Ill Asian Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Syed Hasan Jawed
Syed Hasan Jawed*
Affiliation:
Ridge Hill Hospital, Brierly Hill Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 5ST
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Abstract

This case-note survey compares a group of Asian children referred to child psychiatry and guidance clinics in Bolton with a control group of white children referred to the same clinics. The proportion of Asian children was less than the proportion of Asian people in the general population. The proportion of Asian children coming from a broken home or a single-parent family was significantly lower than in the control group. Conduct disorders were more common in the control group and somatoform disorders were more common in the Asian group.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 2 , February 1991 , pp. 268 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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