Ehrlich Stefan, Pfeiffer Ernst, Salbach Harriet, Lenz Klaus, Lehmkuhl Ulrike
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik, und Psychotherapie des Kindes und Jugendalters, Berlin, Germany.
Psychosomatics. 2008 Sep-Oct;49(5):392-8. doi: 10.1176/appi.psy.49.5.392.
Factitious disorder (FD) presumably manifests at an early age, but epidemiological and clinical data about pediatric FD are still lacking.
The authors sought to study prevalence data of FD among referrals to a child-and-adolescent consultation-liaison service (CLS).
Authors conducted a retrospective survey of FD on 1,684 patients who were referred to the CLS from 1992 to 2003 (Sample I) and 12,081 patients who were treated in a tertiary-care child health center from 2003 to 2005 (Sample II).
In Sample I, FD occurred in 0.7% and, in Sample II, in 0.03% of the cases.
The prevalence of pediatric FD among referrals to a CLS is similar to those found in studies of adults, and patients share many clinical characteristics.
人为性障碍(FD)可能在早年就会出现,但关于儿童FD的流行病学和临床数据仍然缺乏。
作者试图研究在儿童和青少年会诊-联络服务(CLS)转诊患者中FD的患病率数据。
作者对1992年至2003年转诊至CLS的1684例患者(样本I)和2003年至2005年在三级儿童保健中心接受治疗的12081例患者(样本II)进行了FD的回顾性调查。
在样本I中,FD的发生率为0.7%,在样本II中为0.03%。
在CLS转诊患者中,儿童FD的患病率与在成人研究中发现的患病率相似,且患者具有许多临床特征。