Psychiatric disorder among children at time of entering local authority care: questionnaire survey

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Abstract
The study was carried out in Glasgow from August 1996 to June 1997. It targeted children aged between 5 years and 12 years who attended for health assessment within six weeks of admission into care. During the study period 89 children attended for health assessment. The accompanying carer was given the Devereux scales of mental disorders5 and was asked to return the questionnaire by post to the investigators Seventy completed questionnaires were returned, a response rate of 79%. Thirty four questionnaires were for boys, 36 for girls; 26 children were taken into residential units, 44 into foster care. The mean age of the children was 9.6 years.

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