Can Youth Health Care Scans at the Age of Five Discriminate between Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients with Severe Disruptive Behavior and a Non-Treatment Group?

Sjoukje Berdina Beike de Boer, Albert Eduard Boon, Anna Marte de Haan

1De Fjord, Center of Orthopsychiatry and Forensic Youth Psychiatry, Lucertis, Capelle aan den IJssel, The Netherlands 2De Jutters, Center of Youth Mental Healthcare Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands.
1De Fjord, Center of Orthopsychiatry and Forensic Youth Psychiatry, Lucertis, Capelle aan den IJssel, The Netherlands 2De Jutters, Center of Youth Mental Healthcare Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands 3Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Curium-Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
De Jutters, Center of Youth Mental Healthcare Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands.

DOI: 10.4236/psych.2013.410111                

Abstract

The aim of the study was to examine whether adolescent psychiatric inpatients (n = 24) with severe disruptive behavior could be discriminated from a control sample (n = 41) based on information about disruptive behavior recorded early in their lives. Remarks by teachers and health professionals made in youth health care files when the respondents were five years of age were used. Both teachers and professionals made significantly more remarks regarding disruptive behavior in the files of the future patients. The files of the patients also contained more remarks about other behavior. The sensitivity and specificity of behavior at the age of five to predict future treatment was satisfactory. The majority of the inpatients belonged to the prototypical life-course-persistent group that is known from epidemiological studies.

Keywords

Adolescent Psychiatry; Life-Course-Persistent; Antisocial Behavior; Youth Health Care Files

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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