Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM IV mental disorders and their severity among school going Omani adolescents and youths: WMH-CIDI findings. | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health BioMed Central Research Prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM IV mental disorders and their severity among school going Omani adolescents and youths WMH-CIDI findings Sanjay Jaju 1 Samir Al-Adawi2 Hilal Al-Kharusi1 Magdi Morsi1 and Asya Al-Riyami1 Open Access Address directorate of Research Studies Directorate General of Planning Ministry of Health HQ Muscat Sultanate of Oman and department of Behavioral Medicine College of Medicine Health Sciences Sultan Qaboos University Muscat Sultanate of Oman Email Sanjay Jaju - drsanjayjaju@ Samir Al-Adawi - jimbo@ Hilal Al-Kharusi - al_kharusi_hilal@ Magdi Morsi - magdimom@ Asya Al-Riyami - asyariyami@ Corresponding author Published 26 September 2009 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2009 3 29 doi l753-2000-3-29 Received 19 May 2009 Accepted 26 September 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 29 2009 Jaju et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background There is a dearth of studies exploring the magnitude of mental disorders amongst adolescents and youths in the Arab world. To our knowledge this phase 2 survey in Oman is the first nationally representative school-based study to determine the prevalence of DSM-IV mental disorders lifetime and over the preceding 12 months their age-of-onset distributions and determine their severity over the past 1 2 months using the World Mental Health-Composite International Diagnostic Interview the WMH-CIDI used for international comparison. Methods A total of 1 682 students out of 1836 students who formed the phase 2 random sub-sample of a multi-stage .
