The impact of children's emotional and behavioural difficulties on their lives and their use of mental health services.

This paper examines the relationship between the impact of children's emotional and behavioural difficulties and the use of mental health services, using 3 years of nationally representative data from the National Health Interview Survey. Data for the years 2001, 2003 and 2004 were combined (n = 29 265) to identify a sample of 1423 children aged 4-17 years with emotional/behavioural difficulties. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used.

Use of mental health services in the past 12 months by children aged 4-17 years: United States, 2005-2006.

Data from the National Health Interview Survey. In 2005-2006, 15% of U.S.

U.S. children with emotional and behavioral difficulties: data from the 2001, 2002, and 2003 National Health Interview Surveys.

Objective: This report presents selected prevalence estimates for children ages 4-17 years with difficulties in emotions, concentration, behavior, or being able to get along with others using data from the 2001, 2002, and 2003 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS).

Methods: Data for the U.S.

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: U.S. normative data and psychometric properties.

Objective: To evaluate the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in a U.S. national population sample of children and adolescents, develop normative scoring bands, and test the association of high-scoring groups with service contacts or use for mental health reasons.

Measuring functional developmental delay in infants and young children: prevalence rates from the NHIS-D.

In order to measure the prevalence of developmental delay among US infants and children, two types of questions were asked of parents in the 1994-95 National Health Interview Survey on Disability (NHIS-D). To measure functional delay (FD), questions from the Functional Developmental Growth Chart (FDQ), which measures specific age-appropriate tasks, were used. General delay (GD) was defined using the general type of questions about developmental delay that had been used in previous surveys.