Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in young people in the care system

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Abstract
All adolescents aged 13 to 17 years looked after by the Oxfordshire local authority—that is, living in residential units and foster care—were included in this study. The comparison group consisted of adolescents with no previous or current contact with any local authority, matched for age and sex, and randomly selected from the same school or, when the adolescent was not attending school, from the same general practice. The study used a two phase, multimethod design. The first phase involved screening the adolescents using the Achenbach child behavioural checklist and the youth self report questionnaires.3 Adolescents who were identified as high scorers as defined by Achenbach were approached to enter the second phase of the study, when they were interviewed using the Kiddie schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia.4 The main statistical analyses were carried out using SUDAAN version 6.34, using weighting methods for two phase sampling designs and allowing for non-responders as described by Pickles et al.5

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