Twelve-month prevalence of DSM-5 mental disorders and the psychosocial correlates- a child and adolescent psychiatric epidemiologic survey in Hong Kong SAR.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood and adolescence, as critically important developmental stages, set the premise for the lifelong trajectory of health and well-being. Epidemiologic evidence abounds in purporting that half of all lifetime mental disorders begin in adolescence. Epidemiologic data based on structured clinical diagnostic assessments are disproportionately scarce in Asian countries that host fast-growing youth population along a wide socioeconomic spectrum in the course of globalisation.

Methods

A cross-sectional school-based epidemiologic survey was conducted on a representative random sample of children and adolescents aged 6-17 years from September 2019 to June 2023 in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong SAR). The main diagnostic measures were 31 DSM-5 disor

SUBMITTER: Chan SSM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11997334 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature