Parents do not see GPs as source of help for emotionally disturbed schoolchildren

BMJ 1998;317:212 ( 18 July )

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Parents do not see GPs as source of help for emotionally disturbed schoolchildren

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EDITOR $---$ The general practice in which I work currently has a project ("Innocence and experience") to increase our awarenessand understanding of emotional disorders in children, which Robinson's editorial recognises to be common.¹ To establish their incidencein our practice we sent the Rutter revised questionnaire² tothe parents of all the 880 children at primary school; 737 (84%)were returned completed. Altogether 125 had coding levels suggestiveof emotional disorder ( $>=$ 13).³

To find out what the practice knew about these children we compared the medical records for the previous 10 years of the 120higher scoring children and their families who remained on ourmedical list with those of a randomly selected sample of 120 ofthe lower scorers and their families; we were blinded for theRutter scores. The physical and mental health of both sets ofchildren and their families was comparable. Fifty four of themothers of higher scorers . . . [Full text of this article]

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