The authors studied retrospectively the clinical characteristics of 1147 child psychiatric outpatients who made their first visit to Department of Psychiatry, Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University, from January 1984 to December 1990.
@ES The results were as follows;
@EN There were significant difference of sex distribution among probands and the ration between male and female was 2.1 : 1.
There were significant differences of the percentage of male patients according to year form 55.8% in 1984 to 75.4% in 1990.
There were some differences of age distribution according to year. Old age group was more frequent from 1984 to 1987, while younger age group was more frequent in 1989 and 1990.
The percentage of child outpatients to the total psychiatric outpatients was 14.7% and was increase by year, such as 4.0% in 1984 and 27.1% in 1990, and the number of child patients had also increasing tendency.
The distributions of psychiatric disorders of probands were in the following order; Emotional disorder, Attention deficit disorderk, Mental retardation, Epilepsy, Pervasive developmental disorder, Specific developmental disorder, Adjustment
disorder,
Sleep disorder, Elimination disorder, Other disorder, Stereotyped movement disorder, Organic brain syndrome, Schizophrenia, Affective disorder, V code, Other psychosis, Conduct disorder, No mental disorder.
There were some differences in the distribution of psychiatric disorders accrding to age. Pervasive developmental disorder and Specific developmental disorder were more frequent before age of 6, Attention deficit disorder was more frequent before
age of
9, Organic brain syndrome and Other disorder were more frequent after age of 7, Conduct disorder, Emotional disorder and Adjustment disorder were more frequent after age of 10, Psychosis was more frequent after age of 13, Stereotyped movement
disorder
was more frequent in the age of 7-12, Sleep disorder and Elimination disorder were more frequent in the age of 4-12.
There were some differences in the distribution of psychiatric disorders according to sex. Attention deficit disorder, Stereotyped movement disorder, Pervasive developmental disorder and Specific developmental disorder were more frequent in male,
while
Emotional disorder and Affective disorder were more frequent in female.
There were some differences in the distribution of psychiatric disorders according to year. Emotional disorder was the most frequent diagnosis from 1984 to 1988, Mental retardation in 1989 and Attention deficit disorder in 1990.
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