Psychiatric consultations in a pediatric hospital
- 1 September 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 132 (9) , 915-918
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.9.915
Abstract
The authors conducted a study of 30 hospitalized children who were referred for psychiatric consultation and 60 hospitalized children who were not. They studied the medical charts of these children and administered a questionnaire including a checklist of behavioral symptoms to their parents. More psychopathology was found in the children referred for consultation, but about 20 percent of the children not referred also showed a high degree of psychopathology. Factors found to be associated with referral for psychiatric consultation were older age, longer hospital stay, many previous hospitalizations, and ambiguous diagnoses.Keywords
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