In view of any systematic study of psychiatric comorbidity among the children and adolescents in this country, the author reviewed 295 child psychiatry outpatients by DSM-III-R at the Chungnam National University Hospital.
@ES The results are follows.
@EN 1. Two hunred thirteen (72%) patients were male, eighty two(28%) patients were female (male : female=2.6 : 1).
2. Fourty one percent of cases did not receive any treatments.
3. Twenty eight percent of cases was taken drug and/or play therapy, psychotherapy.
4. Axis I disagnoses were attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(16%), mood disorders(8%), functional enuresis(7%), tic disorders(6%), anxiety disorders(5%), conduct disorder(4%), stereotypy/habit disorders(4%), obsessive compulsive
disorder(4%),
adjustment disorders(2%), oppositional defiant disorder(2%), stuttering(2%), schizophrenia(2%), organic mental disorders(2%), functional encopresis(1%). Axis II diagnoses were pervasive developmental disorders(26%), mental retardation (19%),
specific
developmental disorders(3%).
5. Thirty three percent of total patients, eighty three percent of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, fifty four percent of conduct disorder, fifty eight percent of tic disorders, twenty four percent of pervasive developmental disorders
had
two
or more diagnoses.
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