Prevalence of reactive attachment disorder in a deprived population.
Br J Psychiatry
; 202(5): 342-6, 2013 May.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is associated with early childhood maltreatment and has unknown population prevalence beyond infancy.AIMS:
To estimate RAD prevalence in a deprived population of children.METHOD:
All 1646 children aged 6-8 years old in a deprived sector of an urban UK centre were screened for RAD symptoms. Parents of high and low scorers were interviewed using semi-structured interviews probing for psychopathology and individuals likely to have RAD were offered face-to-face assessment.RESULTS:
Questionnaire data were available from 92.8% of teachers and 65.8% of parents. Assessments were conducted with 50% of those invited and missing data were imputed--based on the baseline data--for the rest. We calculated that there would be 23 children with definite RAD diagnoses, suggesting that the prevalence of RAD in this population was 1.40% (95% CI 0.94-2.10).CONCLUSIONS:
In this deprived general population, RAD was not rare.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtorno Reativo de Vinculação na Infância
Tipo de estudo:
Prevalence_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Child
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Humans
País como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article