McNicholas F
Bloomfield and Newcomen Centres, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.
Child Care Health Dev. 2001 Nov;27(6):497-508. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2214.2001.00231.x.
This study examines the prescribing practices and attitudes to psychotropic medication by paediatricians in the UK.
Questionnaires were sent to 100 randomly chosen paediatricians in the UK to assess their prescribing practices of psychotropic medication in children.
Paediatricians see and treat many children with a wide variety of psychotropic medications on a regular basis. However, few of them feel competent, and most requested regular psychopharmacology seminars.
In the US, primary care physicians and paediatricians are recognized as primarily responsible for the continuing increase in psychotropic prescriptions in children. This study shows that, in the UK, paediatricians also contribute to such prescribing and need to be taken into account when estimating the prevalence and appropriateness of such medication use in children.
本研究调查了英国儿科医生使用精神药物的处方习惯和态度。
向英国随机挑选的100名儿科医生发放问卷，以评估他们对儿童使用精神药物的处方习惯。
儿科医生经常诊治许多使用各种精神药物的儿童。然而，他们中很少有人觉得自己有能力胜任，大多数人要求定期举办精神药理学研讨会。
在美国，初级保健医生和儿科医生被认为对儿童精神药物处方持续增加负有主要责任。本研究表明，在英国，儿科医生也促成了此类处方，在估计此类药物在儿童中使用的普遍性和适当性时需要考虑到这一点。
