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© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.024737
RESEARCH AND PRACTICE |
Gail A. Wasserman and Larkin S. McReynolds are with the Center for Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice, Division of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York. Susan J. Ko is with the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at the University of California, Los Angeles. Laura M. Katz is with The Analytica Group, Inc, New York. Jennifer R. Carpenter is with the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, Austin.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Gail A. Wasserman, PhD, Center for Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 78, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: wassermg{at}childpsych.columbia.edu).
Objective. We identified gender differences in psychiatric disorders among youths at probation intake.
Methods. We measured disorders with the Voice Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children among 991 randomly selected youths (200 girls) at probation intake in 8 Texas counties. Logistic regression analyses predicted diagnostic clusters by gender, adjusting for demographics and offense characteristics.
Results. Demographic and offense characteristics explained small but interpretable and specific variance in diagnostic profile. Girls’ rates of anxiety and affective disorders were higher than boys’ (odds ratios = 0.59 and 0.32, respectively). Girls with violent offenses, compared with other groups, were 3 to 5 times as likely to report anxiety disorders.
Conclusions. Among youths with conduct problems, girls demonstrated an elevated risk for co-occurring anxiety or affective disorder.
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