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Prevalence And Comorbidity Of Mental Disorders Among American Indian Children In The Northern Midwest, Les B. Whitbeck, Kurt D. Johnson, Dan R. Hoyt, Melissa L. Walls
Prevalence And Comorbidity Of Mental Disorders Among American Indian Children In The Northern Midwest, Les B. Whitbeck, Kurt D. Johnson, Dan R. Hoyt, Melissa L. Walls
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Purpose — To investigate the prevalence of mental disorder and comorbidity among American Indian children aged 10–12 years from four U.S. reservations and five Canadian reserves in the Northern Midwest.
Method — Specially trained Native interviewers administered the Diagnostic Interview for Children-Revised for 11 diagnostic categories to 736 tribally enrolled children (mean age 11 years) and their female caretakers.
Results — Prevalence rates are reported by child self-report, female caretaker reports, and combined caretakerchild reports. Twenty-three percent (combined caretaker-child reports) of the children met criteria for one of the 11 disorders and 9% met criteria for two or more of …