소아정신과 환자의 임상적 고찰 ᅳ부산의 한 사립종합병원의 외래 및 입원환자의 경험ᅳ

Clinical Study of ‘Child Psychiatric Patients

Clinical study was done for the children who visited Department of Neuropsychiatry, Maryknoll Hospital, Pusan, Korea, from Jan. 1，1978 to Dec.31, 1983. The results were as follows： 1. The first visiting childhood outpatients occupied 10.57% of all the first visiting psychiatric outpatients, and 3.31% of all the psychiatric inp-atients were children. 2. Viewing the sibling order of the outpatients, the eldests were 35.59% of them , and the middles and the youngests were 28.71% respectively. 3. Most of the first visiting outpatients(41.48% ) came to the hospital more than 6 months after onset. 4. The frequent chief complaints for which the first visiting outpatients sought medical help were headache, followed by somatic symptoms, convulsions, sleep disturbances, bizarre behaviours, in order. 5. Almost all the patients were accompanied by their mothers. 6. Among the outpatients, the most frequently encountered disease entity was neurosis, and then special symptoms, epilepsy, mental, retardation, in order of frequency. Among the inpatients, the diagnosis of neurosis w as also the most frepuent one, followed by transient situational disturbances, epilepsy, schizophrenia, in order. 7. The number of visiting the outpatient clinic was greater in the patients whose medication were prescribed, compared with the patients whose medication were not prescribed.