The high societal costs of childhood conduct problems: evidence from administrative records up to age 38 in a longitudinal birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with conduct problems that persist into adulthood are at increased risk for future behavioral, health, and social problems. However, the longer term public service usage among these children has not been fully documented. To aid public health and intervention planning, adult service usage across criminal justice, health care, and social welfare domains is compared among all individuals from a representative cohort who followed different conduct problem trajectories from childhood into adulthood.

Methods

Participants are from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, a prospective, representative cohort of consecutive births (N = 1,037) from April 1972 to March 1973 in Dunedin, New Zealand. Regression analyses were used to compare levels

SUBMITTER: Rivenbark JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5975095 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature