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Assessment of Psychiatric Risk in adolescence

The purpose of this study was to investigate the discriminating power and the applicability of the ‘Anthony’s Risk Profile (ARP) which is a tool for assessment of psychiatric risk of an individual. After translation into Korean, the A R P questionnaires were sent to the parents of 160 preadolescents, 240 early adolescents and 240 middle adolescents. (Male ： Fem ale=l : 1, Urban ： Rural 1 : l) Six hundred and eight questionnaires were returned and the data of 578 questionnaires were analyzed statistically. Then the stratified sample of 23 rural boys were chosen and compared with a 23 psychiatric patient group. Some of the results and conclusions are as follows： 1. All subjects but one belonged to the range of low risk of 0 to 13 scores. 2. The subjects whose total risk score ranged between 7-13 were significantly more in rural samples than in the urban probably due to increased environmental and subsequent physical ill-health loading. 3. The developmental, environmental and traumatic loading were greater in male samples than in the female 4. Patient group showed higher total risk score and higher risk of all sub-categories except reproductive loading than normal group 5. In conclusion, the A RP questionnaire was found to have some discriminating poAver between different groups and found applicable to Korean adolescents. The authors hinted at a possibility of revising some items and addition of new items such as sibling rivalry or parental overprotection..