Social factors associated with child mental health problems in Brazil: cross sectional survey

摘要

The prevalence of child psychiatric disorder in the developed world is 10-20%, but in the developing world, where children and adolescents make up a higher proportion of the population, the prevalence may be higher. Relatively little is known about the extent to which social risk factors identified in the developed world also apply in the developing world. To guide healthcare planning we used three contrasting samples from the largest and most populous country in Latin America to examine the association between child mental health problems and social factors, such as poverty, family violence, and parental mental illness.