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      Prevalence of reactive attachment disorder in a deprived population.

      The British Journal of Psychiatry
      Child, Health Status Disparities, Humans, Pilot Projects, Prevalence, Reactive Attachment Disorder, epidemiology, Scotland, Urban Health

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          Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is associated with early childhood maltreatment and has unknown population prevalence beyond infancy. To estimate RAD prevalence in a deprived population of children. All 1646 children aged 6-8 years old in a deprived sector of an urban UK centre were screened for RAD symptoms. Parents of high and low scorers were interviewed using semi-structured interviews probing for psychopathology and individuals likely to have RAD were offered face-to-face assessment. Questionnaire data were available from 92.8% of teachers and 65.8% of parents. Assessments were conducted with 50% of those invited and missing data were imputed--based on the baseline data--for the rest. We calculated that there would be 23 children with definite RAD diagnoses, suggesting that the prevalence of RAD in this population was 1.40% (95% CI 0.94-2.10). In this deprived general population, RAD was not rare.

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          23580380
          10.1192/bjp.bp.112.114074

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          Child,Health Status Disparities,Humans,Pilot Projects,Prevalence,Reactive Attachment Disorder,epidemiology,Scotland,Urban Health

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