Scholte Evert M, Van Berckelaer-Onnes Ina A, Van der Ploeg Jan D, Van den Bergh Peter M
Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Adolescence. 2008 Winter;43(172):847-59.
The number of children displaying childhood disorders in the Netherlands is estimated through a questionnaire referencing DSM-IV symptoms filled out by the parents of 2,563 4- 18-year-old Dutch children randomly taken from the general Dutch Youth population in 2004. The number of impaired children was estimated by applying the DSM-IV criteria for impairment by symptoms. It was found that 14% of all Dutch children display developmental difficulties, with 8% at risk of moderate behavioral and emotional difficulties and 6% at risk of a childhood psychiatric disorder. These prevalence figures based upon parental observations of DSM-IV symptoms in children are in agreement with the findings of other studies estimating psychiatric disorders in childhood in Western countries.
荷兰儿童期疾病患儿的数量是通过一份问卷来估算的，该问卷由2004年从荷兰普通青少年人群中随机抽取的2563名4至18岁荷兰儿童的父母填写，问卷涉及《精神疾病诊断与统计手册第四版》（DSM-IV）的症状。受损儿童的数量是通过应用DSM-IV中关于症状导致受损的标准来估算的。结果发现，所有荷兰儿童中有14%存在发育困难，8%有中度行为和情绪困难的风险，6%有儿童期精神疾病的风险。这些基于父母对儿童DSM-IV症状观察得出的患病率数据与其他估算西方国家儿童精神疾病的研究结果一致。
