Community-Based Prevalence of Externalizing and Internalizing Disorders among School-Aged Children and Adolescents in Four Geographically Dispersed School Districts in the United States

• Published in: Child psychiatry and human development Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 500 - 514
• Main Authors: Danielson, Melissa L., Bitsko, Rebecca H., Holbrook, Joseph R., Charania, Sana N., Claussen, Angelika H., McKeown, Robert E., Cuffe, Steven P., Owens, Julie Sarno, Evans, Steven W., Kubicek, Lorraine, Flory, Kate
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.06.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescents; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Child & adolescent psychiatry; Child and School Psychology; Children; Community mental health services; Estimates; Health care; High risk; Internalization; Internalizing disorders; Medical screening; Mental disorders; Mental health; Mental health services; Movement disorders; Original Article; Psychiatry; Psychological assessment; Psychology; School districts; Students; Surveillance; Teachers; Teenagers; Tests; Tics; United States > US; Ohio; Screening; Population-based; Children; Mental disorders; Adolescents

The Project to Learn About Youth-Mental Health (PLAY–MH; 2014–2018) is a school-based, two-stage study designed to estimate the prevalence of selected mental disorders among K-12 students in four U.S.-based sites (Colorado, Florida, Ohio, and South Carolina). In Stage 1, teachers completed validated...