BEHAVIOR SYMPTOMS IN CHILDREN AND DEGREE OF SICKNESS
JOHN C. GLIDEWELL PH. D.,
IVAN N. MENSH PH. D., , and
MARGARET C.-L. GILDEA M. D.1
1 The Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis County Health Department.
Data have been presented to show that, in a sample of 91 school children and a sample of 35 clinic cases, a reliable, positive relationship exists between the number, frequency, duration, and severity of the symptoms reported by a child's mother and the degree of sickness found in the child. The relationship permits one to use the mother's report as a screening instrument with more success than with most medical screening techniques.
