Abstract
The prevalence of psychiatric disorder in this rural sample was similar to rates reported in other recent studies. Poverty was the strongest demographic correlate of diagnosis, in both urban and rural children.
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PsychiatryConduct disorderPrevalence of mental disordersAnxietyPovertyPopulationGeneralized anxiety disorderMedicineMental healthPrevalenceEnuresisDemographyPsychologyEnvironmental health
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E. Jane Costello
(1996).
The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth.
Archives of General Psychiatry
, 53
(12)
, 1129-1129.
https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830120067012
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- 10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830120067012