Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain
- Abstract
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The OPCS/ONS Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity in Great Britain aim to provide up-to-date information about the prevalence of psychiatric problems among people in Great Britain, as well as their associated social disabilities and use of services. The series started in 1993. The primary purpose of the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain, 1999 survey was to produce prevalence rates of three main categories of mental disorder: conduct disorder; hyperactivity; emotional disorders (and their co morbidity).
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Mental health, housing, general health, strengths and difficulties, friendship, development, separation anxiety, social and specific phobias, panic attacks and agoraphobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, compulsions and obsessions, generalised anxiety, depression, self-harm, attention and activity, awkward and troublesome behaviours, eating disorders, tics, personality issues, stress and life events, school exclusions. Some data were gathered by self-completion, for example drink and drug use (from child/young person) and parent's/parents' education, employment, income, strengths and difficulties (parent).
- Variables
- http://www.data-archive.ac.[…]&class=0&from=sn#gs
- Keywords
- Great Britain, anxiety disorders, mental disorders, mental health
- Identifier Variables
- GOR
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Mental Health
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Disease Area
- Mental health
- Data Available
- Socio-economic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1999, 2004
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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1999: Children aged 5-15 in Great Britain (including the Scottish Highlands) during 1999. sample size 10, 438 children. 2004: Children and young persons aged 11-15/16 years, living in Great Britain during 2004, and their parents and teachers. Sample size Target: 12,294. Obtained: 7,977
- Availability
- ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- 1999: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=4227 2004: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/snDescription.asp?sn=5269
- Contact
- help@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/publicationListForSN.asp?sn=4227