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Fatori, Daniel
[1]
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Salum, Giovanni
[2]
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Itria, Alexander
[3]
;
Pan, Pedro
[4]
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Alvarenga, Pedro
[1]
;
Rohde, Luis Augusto
[2, 1]
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Bressan, Rodrigo
[4]
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Gadelha, Ary
[4]
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Mari, Jair de Jesus
[4]
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do Rosario, Maria Conceicao
[4]
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Manfro, Gisele
[2]
;
Polanczyk, Guilherme
[1]
;
Miguel, Euripedes Constantino
[1]
;
Graeff-Martins, Ana Soledade
[2]
Total Authors: 14
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Dept Psychiat, Sch Med, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Dept Psychiat, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil
[3] Univ Fed Goias, Inst Trop Pathol & Publ Hlth, Dept Collect Hlth, Goiania, Go - Brazil
[4] Univ Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Psychiat, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH; v. 27, n. 6, p. 588-594, NOV 2 2018. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
Background: Mental disorders are common health problems associated with serious impairment and economic impact. Aims: To estimate the costs of clinical and subthreshold mental disorders in a sample of Brazilian children. Method: The High Risk Cohort Study is a community study conducted in two major Brazilian cities. Subjects were 6-14 years old children being registered at school. From an initial pool of 9937 children, two subgroups were further investigated using a random-selection (n = 958) and high-risk group selection procedure (n = 1554), resulting in a sample of 2512 subjects. Mental disorder assessment was made using the Development and Well-Being Assessment. Costs for each child were estimated from the following components: mental health and social services use, school problems and parental loss of productivity. Results: Child subthreshold and clinical mental disorders showed lifetime mean total cost of \$1750.9 and \$3141.2, respectively. National lifetime cost estimate was \$9.9 billion for subthreshold mental disorders and \$11.6 billion for clinical mental disorders (values in US\$ purchasing power parity). Conclusions: This study provides evidence that child mental disorders have a great economic impact on society. There is an urgent need to plan an effective system of care with cost-effective programs of treatment and prevention to reduce economic burden. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/57896-8 - National Institute for Developmental Psychiatry |
| Grantee: | Eurípedes Constantino Miguel Filho |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/09246-0 - Study of obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental disorders costs in childhood |
| Grantee: | Daniel Graça Fatori de Sá |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |