Prevalence of mental disorders in the male juvenile detention centers of Hunan and Sichuan

Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences
Jiansong ZhouXiaoping Wang

Abstract

To investigate the prevalence of mental health problems in male violent offenders of Hunan and Sichuan Provinces; and to compare the types and severity of problems between the violent and nonviolent offenders. Ninety-one violent juvenile offenders and 64 nonviolent juvenile offenders in the juvenile detention centers of Hunan, and 81 violent juvenile offenders in the juvenile detention centers of Sichuan; 39 high school students from a middle school of Hunan Province and 49 from a middle school of Sichuan Province were investigated using the Investigation Screening Inventory for Child Mental Disorder and the Kiddy Schedule for Affective Diseases and Schizophrenia (K-SADS-PL), and classified according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In the Hunan violent group, 86.6% met the criterion of conduct disorder (CD), 17.6% of substance abuse, 9.9% of substance dependence, while in the Hunan nonviolent group, 75.0% met the criterion of CD, and 11.7% of substance abuse; these were all significantly higher than those of the control group (P<0.05). In the Sichuan violent group, 17.3% met the criterion of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 18.5% of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), 69.1% of CD, ...Continue Reading

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