Psychiatric consultations in a pediatric hospital

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  • GAG A Awad
    G A Awad
  • EPE O Poznanski
    E O Poznanski
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Abstract
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.

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