Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescent at Egypt

Child Behavior Disorders Clinical Trial

Official title:

Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders Among Preschool and School Children and Adolescent in Egypt

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04762394
• Other study ID #: Assiut university, Egypt
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: February 20, 2021
• Est. completion date: February 20, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: February 2021
• Source: Assiut University
• Contact: gellan Ahmed, PhD
• Phone: +201093663928
• Email: gillankaram[@]aun.edu.eg
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Pediatric, developmental and mental health problems are more common than renal, cardiac and renal problems.

Compartmental problems were often conceptualised across two broad spectrums: internalising intrapersonal problems like anxiety, depression and withdrawal and externalising problems such as Interpersonal problems such as hyperactivity and aggression.

Mental disorders with long-term consequences can result in children and adolescents, undermining health compliance and reducing societies' ability to be safe and productive. As, children and adolescent have long-term deteriorating effects of mental health problems are often serious.

Early detection and identification of problems are in the best interest of children, adolescents, their families, and the community as a whole. All three are important.

how epidemiology can help our understanding of children and adolescent mental health: the burden of the community, measurement and tracking highly significant.

This study will display the first large-scale study of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in the Egypt . to provide services, including prevention and intervention based on evidence of mental health, a population-representative child survey and adolescent mental estimates disorders were needed urgently

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 400
• Est. completion date: February 20, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: February 20, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 2 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. age of children (2-18 years)

2. both males and females.

3. living in Egypt.

Exclusion Criteria:

• unwilling parent to recruited in the study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent Behaviour Disorder
• Child Behavior Disorders
• Child Mental Disorder
• Disease
• Mental Disorders
• Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Problem Behavior

Intervention

Behavioral:
• The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL),
It consists of 113 items; the parents complete it to detect emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years. It is scored on a three-point Likert scale (0=absent, 1= occurs sometimes, 2=occurs often). The time duration for item responses is the past six months.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	gellan Ahmed	Assiut

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assiut University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	measure the prevalence of DSM 5 psychiatric disorders in the community sample of school children in Assiut government.	by using The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL):It consists of 113 items, the parents complete it to detect emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents .It includes open-ended items covering physical problems, concerns, and strengths. The CBCL/6-18 yields scores on internalizing, externalizing, and total problems as well as scores on DSM-5 related scales.It is providing a total behaviour problem score and two second order factor scores for internalizing problems (anxious/depressed, somatic complaints, withdrawn/depressed) and externalizing behaviour (rule breaking behaviour and aggressive problems).	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Primary	measure of risk factor of DSM 5 psychiatric disorders in the community sample of school children in Assiut government.	Patients were subjected to a full psychiatric and medical assessment at the beginning of the study. A semistructured form was prepared by researchers to detect sociodemographic and clinical variables of the patients, and the medical history of the patients were reviewed. Information gathered included age, sex, birth order, pregnancy problems, delivery type, birth complications, delay of speech development, delay of motor development, family history of consanguinity	through study completion, an average of 1 year