Trend of main psychiatric health problems among children and adolescent at different districts in Egypt

Abstract EN

Background: Mental disorders and suicide can result from the interaction of mental disorders and cither factors were the second leading cause of death among children aged (12-17) ys in 2010 at United States.

Objective; To study the prevalence of main psychiatric health problems in Egyptian children and adolescents for early intervention to help raising the new generations in an appropriate way assuring building up healthy society.

Methodology: Fust phase; a meta- analysis study data derived from Egyptian psychiatric informatics in children (EPIC), which were conducted from 1980 to 2005, including 57.802 subjects, studying the trend of main psychiatric health problems among children and adolescent at different govemorates.

Second Phase; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) data are added to the data of EPIC regarding ADHD to study the prevalence of disease at different govemorates.

Results; The first phase includes 57.802 subjects from different govemorates in Egypt.

Among this group there are 38.731 subjects (67.0%), without psychiatric health problems and 19.071 subjects (33.0%), with psychiatric health problems, the trend of psychiatric health problems among children and adolescence at different periods.

In general there was increase in psychiatric health problems prevalence among this age group and this difference statistically highly significant (P=0.0 001).

Also, the prevalence of main psychiatric health problems increase among those who lose their parent (81.5%) and (43.6%) on the other group and this difference was statistically highly saignificant (P=0.0 001).

Second phase, prevalence of ADHD at different govemorates showed non- significant difference between all studied govemorates (P=0.999).

Conclusion: About 33% of the studied group had main psychiatric health problems that showed increase by the time.

A plan must be designed to overcome this problem which may lead to high morbidity and mortality among this important age group.