A Clinic based Descriptive Study of Childhood Mental Disorders according to DSM-5

Dr Avik Chakraborty; Dr Ujjwal Bandyopadhyay

Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

A Clinic based Descriptive Study of Childhood Mental Disorders according to DSM-5

Dr Avik Chakraborty, Dr Ujjwal Bandyopadhyay

Abstract :

Study of prevalence pattern of mental disorder in children based on DSM–5 is limited. This study aimed to measure proportion of different mental disorder in children (1–12yrs). It is a retrospective, Hospital based, cross sectional, descriptive study. Most common diagnoses are Intellectual Developmental Disorder & ADHD. This study suffer due to limited sample size and from poor generalisablity.