Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain, 2004

<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>The <i>Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity in Great Britain</i> aim to provide up-to-date information about the prevalence of psychiatric problems among people in Great Britain, as well as their associated social disabilities and use of services. The series started in 1993, and so far consists of the following surveys:<ul><li><i>OPCS Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity: Private Household Survey, 1993</i> - this covered 10,000 adults aged 16 to 64 years living in private households</li><li>a supplementary sample of 350 people aged 16 to 64 years with psychosis, living in private households, which was conducted in 1993-1994 and then repeated in 2000</li><li><i>OPCS Surveys of Psychiatric Morbidity: Institutions Sample, 1994</i> - this covered 1,200 people aged 16 to 64 years living in institutions specifically catering for people with mental illness</li><li><i>OPCS Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity among Homeless People, 1994</i> - this covered 1,100 homeless people aged 16 to 64 years living in hostels for the homeless or other such institutions. The sample also included people sleeping 'rough'</li><li><i>ONS Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity among Prisoners in England and Wales, 1997</i></li><li><i>Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain, 1999</i></li><li><i>Psychiatric Morbidity among Adults Living in Private Households, 2000</i> - this survey was a repeat of the 1993 private households survey</li><li><i>Mental Health of Young People Looked After by Local Authorities in Great Britain, 2001-2002</i></li><li><i>Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain, 2004</i> - this was a repeat of the 1999 survey</li><li><i>Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, 2007</i> - this survey was a repeat of the 2000 private households survey. The Information Centre for Health and Social Care took over management of the survey in 2007</li></ul>The UK Data Archive (UKDA) holds data from all the surveys mentioned above apart from the 1993-1994/2000 supplementary samples of people with psychosis living in private households. Further details can be found on the <a href="http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/pmsTitles.asp" title="Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys">Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys</a> datasets page.<br> <br> Further information about the series and links to publications can be found on the Department of Health <a href="http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/PublishedSurvey/ListOfSurveySince1990/SurveyListMentalHealth/fs/en" title="Mental Health Surveys">Mental Health Surveys</a> web page.<br>The main aims of the <i>Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain, 2004</i> survey were:<ul><li>to examine whether there were any changes between 1999 and 2004 in the prevalence of the three main categories of mental disorder: conduct disorders, emotional disorders and hyperkinetic disorders</li><li>to describe the characteristics and behaviour patterns of children in each main disorder category and subgroups within those categories</li><li>to look in more detail at children with autistic spectrum disorder</li><li>to examine the relationship between mental disorder and aspects of children's lives not covered in the previous survey, for example, medication, absence from school, empathy and social capital</li><li>to collect baseline information to enable identification of the protective and risk factors associated with the main categories of disorder and the precursors of personality disorder through future follow-up surveys</li></ul><B>Main Topics</B>:<br>The data file contains:<ul><li>a subset of information collected in the previous 1999 survey on 10,438 children aged 5-15; these variables included those which were repeated in comparable form in 2004. The full 1999 dataset has also been deposited at UKDA (see 'Abstract' section above)</li><li>the full data collected in the 2004 survey on 7,977 children aged 5-16</li><li>any potentially disclosive variables have been removed</li></ul>Information was provided for the survey from up to three sources: the primary care giver, the child/young person (aged 11-15/16 years) and the child/young person's teacher (nominated by child/parent).<br> <br> Topics covered in the 2004 survey included: housing, general health, strengths and difficulties, friendship, development, separation anxiety, social and specific phobias, panic attacks and agoraphobia, post-traumatic stress disorder, compulsions and obsessions, generalised anxiety, depression, self-harm, attention and activity, awkward and troublesome behaviours, eating disorders, tics, personality issues, stress and life events, school exclusions. Some data were gathered by self-completion, for example drink and drug use (from child/young person) and parent's/parents' education, employment, income, strengths and difficulties (parent).<br> <br> Clinical raters reviewed the survey data from all sources and then assigned <i>International Classification of Diseases</i> (ICD_10) ratings as necessary (see the documentation for a full description of the methodology). The file also contains derived variables (specifications provided).<br> <br> Standard Measures:<ul><li><i>General Health Questionnaire</i> (GHQ) (Goldberg and Williams, 1988)</li><li><i>Development and Well-Being Assessment Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire</i> (DAWBA) (Goodman, 1997 and 1998)</li><li><i>General Functioning Scale of the MacMaster Family Activity Device</i> (FAD)</li>