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TEENAGE PSYCHOSES—EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLASSIFICATION AND REDUCED OPTIMALITY IN THE PRE‐, PERI‐AND NEONATAL PERIODS
Author(s) -
Gillberg Christopher,
Wahlström Jan,
Forsman Anders,
Hellgren Lars,
Gillberg I. Carina
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1986.tb00624.x
Subject(s) - psychology , epidemiology , psychiatry , schizophreniform disorder , psychosis , peri , child and adolescent psychiatry , population , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , el niño , pediatrics , medicine , environmental health , schizoaffective disorder
This is a population‐based survey from Göteborg, Sweden, of all youngsters treated as in‐patients for operationally defined ‘psychotic disorders’ during their teens. It was shown that 0.54% of all teenagers in Göteborg had been treated for such disorders at least once during the 13‐to 19‐year‐old age period. Boys and girls were about equally affected, but schizophreniform disorders tended to be much more common among the boys and affective disorders more common among the girls. Child psychiatric services had been consulted much less frequently than adult ones, in spite of the many developmental aspects of the psychotic disorders. Scores for reduced optimality in the pre‐and perinatal periods were marginally, though significantly, more common in the psychosis groups than in an age‐, sex‐and maternity clinic‐matched control group.