Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ARTICLES14-Year Changes in Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Very Young Dutch Children
Section snippets
1989 Sample.
For the 1989 sample, four hundred 2- to 3-year-olds were randomly drawn from the provincial inoculation register of the province of Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands. Because this register did not contain children from Rotterdam, sixty-nine 2- to 3-year-olds were also randomly drawn from the register of the Rotterdam municipal health service, which contains data on all children living in Rotterdam. Data collection took place between September 1989 and March 1990. Two children were excluded because
Prevalence of Psychopathology
To enable comparison of the prevalence of psychopathology among Dutch and American very young children, we have depicted in Table 2 the percentages of children scoring above the borderline cutoffs, which are based on the American norm sample for the CBCL/1½-5 (Achenbach and Rescorla, 2001). Because the CBCL used for the 1989 sample does not contain identical items to the questionnaire used for the American norm sample and for the 2003 sample, we have used raw scores, not T scores, for our
DISCUSSION
In this study we investigated the 14-year secular change in parent-reported emotional and behavioral problems of 2- and 3-year-olds in the Dutch population. Our findings indicate that the problem scores for preschoolers in 2003 were similar to those in 1989. A few small changes were found in scale scores, indicating lower parent-reported problem scores among 2003 very young children than among their 1989 counterparts. This was the case for Total Problems, Internalizing, Anxious/Depressed, and
REFERENCES (27)
- et al.
Test-Retest Reliability of the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA)
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
(2006) - et al.
Psychiatric disorders with onset in the preschool years: I. Stability of diagnoses
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
(1998) - et al.
Early preschool predictors of preadolescent internalizing and externalizing DSM-IV diagnoses
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
(2001) - et al.
Have there been changes in children's psychiatric symptoms and mental health service use? A 10-year comparison from Finland
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry
(2004) - et al.
Are American children's problems still getting worse? A 23-year comparison
J Abnorm Child Psychol
(2003) - et al.
Manual for the ASEBA Preschool Forms & Profiles
(2001) - et al.
Assessment of young children's social-emotional development and psychopathology: recent advances and recommendations for practice
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
(2004) Standard Classification of Occupations
(2001)Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
(1988)- et al.
Time trends in adolescent mental health
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
(2004)
The changing prevalence of autism in California
J Autism Dev Disord
Trends in the outsourcing of domestic work and childcare in The Netherlands: compositional or behavioral change?
Acta Sociol
Common emotional and behavioral disorders in preschool children: presentation, nosology, and epidemiology
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
Cited by (80)
Prenatal exposure to anxiolytic and hypnotic medication in relation to behavioral problems in childhood: A population-based cohort study
2017, Neurotoxicology and TeratologyPhysical symptoms and brain morphology: a population neuroimaging study in 12,286 pre-adolescents
2023, Translational Psychiatry
This study was supported by grantSSWO 960 from theSophia Foundation of Medical Research.
Disclosure: The authors have no financial relationships to disclose.