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Epidemiological study of disability from mental disorders in children and adolescents population in Saratov region in 2000–2014

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

V. Popkov
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
N. Filippova
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
Y. Abrosimova
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
E. Kolesnichenko
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
S. Pakhomova
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
D. Samoilova
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
A. Antonova
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
E. Bachilo
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
M. Deeva
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia
S. Sizov
Affiliation:
Saratov State Medical University, Department of psychiatry, narcology, psychotherapy and clinical psychology, Saratov, Russia

Abstract

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Introduction

Children and Teenager's disability is an extremely important medical and social problem, being very characteristic of the state of public health in the country and the level of social well-being of society.

Objectives

An epidemiological study of the structure of disability due to mental disorders in children and adolescent population of the Saratov region for the period from 2000 to 2014.

Methods

The analysis of the statistical data reporting forms “Information on the health care system” and “Information on the groups of the mentally ill” in the Saratov region in 2000–2014 by epidemiological, demographic and mathematical-statistical methods.

Results

Number of children and adolescents (0–17 years), recognized as disabled by mental illness, increased both in absolute numbers (growth rate-12.86%), and the intensive indicators (49.88%). Increasing the number of disabled children and adolescents registered in schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychosis, schizotypal disorder, affective psychosis with delusions incongruent the affect. The most significant increase is observed in the group of chronic nonorganic and childhood psychoses. In epilepsy and mental retardation in the analyzed period was a slight decrease in total disability.

Conclusions

The most significant increase in disability in the group of chronic nonorganic and childhood psychosis, most likely due not only to a true increase in morbidity and disability, but also with a great attention of both the public and the country's health services to the problems of childhood autism and, as a consequence, greater detection of children with this category of disorders.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Viewing: Epidemiology and social psychiatry
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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