Research reportYoung referred boys with DICA-P manic symptoms vs. two comparison groups
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Methods
The data for this study were drawn from the diagnostic phase of the Long Island Follow-Up Study (LIFUS), an ongoing investigation of 6–10 year-old boys (n=250) with hyperactive, aggressive, and/or emotional psychopathology who were consecutively referred for diagnostic evaluation from a child psychiatry outpatient clinic (55%), from a support group for parents of children with ADHD (39%), or directly from parents, schools, or other professionals (6%). Parents gave informed consent, and boys
Results
All comparisons were made with simple t-tests or χ2 tests between pairs of groups in order to compare, first, the MANSX with the NEXT boys and, second, the MANSX with the COMORB boys. Tests included all 23 boys in each group unless otherwise noted. A liberal significance level of p=0.05 (two-tailed) was adopted in order to lower the probability of rejecting true differences. This decision of course also raised the probability that some purportedly significant differences occurred by chance.
Discussion
An average of almost five manic symptoms were reported by mothers in 9.9% of 233 6–10 year-old boys referred to a diagnostic study of behavioral and emotional problems. It is unclear how many of these boys would meet formal criteria for a manic episode. Nevertheless, compared to the non-manic comparison boys seen next in the investigation, the manic-symptom youngsters had more oppositional and depressive symptoms, and they were described by their mothers as significantly more emotional,
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by Grant No. MH44733 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
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