Am J Psychiatry 1990; 147:780-784
Copyright © 1990 by American Psychiatric Association
Risk factors and correlates of severe psychiatric disorders in a sample of inpatient children
JH Kashani, AC Dandoy, AF Vaidya, SM Soltys and JC Reid
Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri-Columbia 65201.
This study used three informants to assess pervasiveness of psychopathology
in a sample of 100 psychiatrically hospitalized children. Analyses of risk
factors for severely disturbed and less disturbed children revealed that
hopelessness, anxiety, low self- esteem, undisciplined personality profile,
and negative life events differentiated the severely disturbed group from
the less disturbed group. Implications of these findings are discussed,
with an emphasis on the importance of focusing on degree of psychopathology
with regard to risk factors.
