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A 22‐ to 25‐year follow‐up study of former child psychiatric patients: a register‐based investigation of the course of psychiatric disorder and mortality in 546 Danish child psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
Thomsen P. H.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1996.tb09880.x
Subject(s) - danish , medicine , psychiatry , neurosis , child and adolescent psychiatry , psychiatric diagnosis , pediatrics , population , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , philosophy , linguistics , environmental health
A total of 546 children and adolescents, aged 5 to 15 years, who were admitted as in‐patients to psychiatric hospitals throughout Denmark betweeen 1970 and 1973, were followed up with regard to later readmissions and mortality. Approximately one‐third of the sample had at least one readmission after the age of 18 years; there was no significant difference between male and female subjects. Probands with three selected diagnoses, namely childhood neurosis, conduct disorder and maladjustment reactions, did have a significantly greater general risk of readmission to psychiatric hospital in adulthood than the background population. In total, 24 probands (22 male, and 2 female subjects) died during the study period. Eight subjects had committed suicide. The standard mortality rate was significantly increased.