14-Year Changes in Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Very Young Dutch Children

Autor/inn/en	Tick, Nouchka T.; Van Der Ende, Jan; Koot, Hans M.; Verhulst, Frank C.
Titel	14-Year Changes in Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Very Young Dutch Children
Quelle	In: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 46 (2007) 10, S.1333 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0890-8567
Schlagwörter	Check Lists; Medical Research; Emotional Disturbances; Hyperactivity; Mental Health; Young Children; Child Behavior; Foreign Countries; Mental Disorders; Evaluation Criteria; Clinical Diagnosis; Behavior Problems; Measures (Individuals); Parent Attitudes; Incidence; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Checkliste; Gefühlsstörung; Hyperaktivität; Psychohygiene; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Messdaten; Elternverhalten; Vorkommen; Niederlande
Abstract	Objective: The societal changes experienced by Western societies in recent decades have raised concerns about increases in the level of children's mental health problems. Although studies of secular changes in the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses have indeed shown increases, their results may have been influenced by methodological problems, such as changing diagnostic criteria. Although repeated population studies using identical measures have not indicated such a clear increase in mental health problems, these studies have been limited to school-age children. We therefore investigated changes in Dutch parents' reports of very young children's emotional and behavioral problems over a 14-year period. Method: We compared Child Behavior Checklist scores across two Dutch general population samples of 2- and 3-year-olds, one sample assessed in 1989 and one in 2003. Results: Results revealed only a few changes over time, indicating small decreases in parent-reported problems. Between 1989 and 2003, there were decreases in the mean scores and in the proportions of children with deviant scores on the Anxious/Depressed, Total Problems, Internalizing, and DSM-oriented attention-deficit/hyperactivity problems scales. Conclusions: Despite indications of increasing problems among school-age children and adolescents, parent-reported problem levels of very young Dutch children have not increased. Our findings even showed some small improvements in parents' reports of very young children's functioning between 1989 and 2003. (Contains 5 tables.) [This study was supported by a grant from the Sophia Foundation of Medical Research.] (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10