Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:1582-1584
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Comorbidity of other psychiatric disturbances in depressed, psychiatrically hospitalized children
NE Alessi and J Magen
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109-0706.
Twenty-five (16%) of 160 psychiatrically hospitalized children were given
diagnoses of depressive disorders. None of 12 diagnostic categories from
DSM-III axes I and II occurred significantly more frequently among these
depressed children than among the non-depressed children in this sample.