Abstract
Five hundred and sixty-two, 16− to 17-year-old consecutive inductees into the Israeli Army, constituting a random sample of their cohort, were screened for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette's syndrome, transient tics (TT), chronic multiple tics (CMT), and attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). Two child psychiatrists interviewed the subjects, using screening items from structured interviews that implement DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria. For OCD, a point prevalence of 3.6% was found, 3.9% for ADHD, 1.8% for CMT, and 1.6% for TT. For ADHD, TT, and CMT, but not for OCD, there was a significantly higher prevalence for males than for females. Among the OCD individuals, there was an elevation of TT, CMT, and Tourette's syndrome relative to the population rates.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1057-1061 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1992 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The preparation of this manuscript was supported in part by the Tourette Syndrome Association. with a special gift from the Smith family. A Bergerfellowship to Ada Zohar provided additional support. We wish to thank James F. Leckmanfor a careful and critical reading of the manuscript, as well as two anonymous reviewers.
Funding
The preparation of this manuscript was supported in part by the Tourette Syndrome Association. with a special gift from the Smith family. A Bergerfellowship to Ada Zohar provided additional support. We wish to thank James F. Leckmanfor a careful and critical reading of the manuscript, as well as two anonymous reviewers.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Tourette Syndrome Association |
Keywords
- adolescence
- comorbidity
- epidemiology
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- tic disorders
