Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:915-918
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Psychiatric consultations in a pediatric hospital
GA Awad and EO Poznanski
The authors conducted a study of 30 hospitalized children who were referred
for psychiatric consultation and 60 hospitalized children who were not.
They studied the medical charts of these children and administered a
questionnaire including a checklist of behavioral symptoms to their
parents. More psychopathology was found in the children referred for
consultation, but about 20 percent of the children not referred also showed
a high degree of psychopathology. Factors found to be associated with
referral for psychiatric consultation were older age, longer hospital stay,
many previous hospitalizations, and ambiguous diagnoses.
