INFANTILE AUTISM AND OTHER CHILDHOOD PSYCHOSES IN A SWEDISH URBAN REGION. EPIDEMIOLOGICCAL ASPECTS
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 25 (1) , 35-43
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1984.tb01717.x
Abstract
A total population screening of children born during 1962-1976 and living in the Gothenburg [Sweden] region at the end of 1980 was carried out to obtain prevalence figures for infantile autism and other childhood psychoses. The prevalence figure for infantile autism was 2.0/10,000 and for other childhood psychoses 1.9/10,000. Boys were much more often affected by infantile autism than girls. In the case of other psychoses, no such over-representation was seen. A majority of the children were mentally retarded, and only 4% had tested IQ exceeding 100. The results are in good agreement with the 3 earlier epidemiological studies concerned with childhood psychosis.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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