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SynthesisEvidence-based mental health2022

Prevalence of childhood mental disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis to inform policymaking.

Jenny Lou Barican, Donna Yung, Christine Schwartz, Yufei Zheng, Katholiki Georgiades, Charlotte Waddell

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Synthesis in Evidence-based mental health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 126 papers, 18 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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126citing papers in PubMed, 18 pooled it
23.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

126 citing papers in PubMed, 18 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 228 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jenny Lou BaricanChildren's Health Policy Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Donna YungChildren's Health Policy Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Christine SchwartzChildren's Health Policy Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Yufei ZhengChildren's Health Policy Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Katholiki GeorgiadesOfford Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Charlotte WaddellChildren's Health Policy Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada charlotte_waddell@sfu.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-2036-4472
Simon Fraser University · CAMcMaster University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

questionMental disorders typically start in childhood and persist, causing high individual and collective burdens. To inform policymaking to address children's mental health in high-income countries we aimed to identify updated data on disorder prevalence.

methodsWe identified epidemiological studies reporting mental disorder prevalence in representative samples of children aged 18 years or younger-including a range of disorders and ages and assessing impairment (searching January 1990 through February 2021). We extracted associated service-use data where studies assessed this. We conducted meta-analyses using a random effects logistic model (using R metafor package).

findingsFourteen studies in 11 countries met inclusion criteria, published from 2003 to 2020 with a pooled sample of 61 545 children aged 4-18 years, including eight reporting service use. (All data were collected pre-COVID-19.) Overall prevalence of any childhood mental disorder was 12.7% (95% CI 10.1% to 15.9%; I

conclusionsAn estimated one in eight children have mental disorders at any given time, causing symptoms and impairment, therefore requiring treatment. Yet even in high-income countries, most children with mental disorders are not receiving services for these conditions. We discuss the implications, particularly the need to substantially increase public investments in effective interventions. We also discuss the policy urgency, given the emerging increases in childhood mental health problems since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (PROSPERO CRD42020157262).

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COVID-19Mental DisordersChildDeveloped CountriesHumansPandemicsPrevalenceSARS-CoV-2child & adolescent psychiatry

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PMID34281985
PMCPMC8788041
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