The British Journal of Psychiatry 158: 268-270 (1991)
© 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
A survey of psychiatrically ill Asian children
SH Jawed
Ridge Hill Hospital, Stourbridge, West Midlands.
This case-note survey compares a group of Asian children referred to child
psychiatry and guidance clinics in Bolton with a control group of white
children referred to the same clinics. The proportion of Asian children was
less than the proportion of Asian people in the general population. The
proportion of Asian children coming from a broken home or a single-parent
family was significantly lower than in the control group. Conduct disorders
were more common in the control group and somatoform disorders were more
common in the Asian group.