Psychiatric Features of Children with Chronic Functional Constipation: Focusing on Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Purpose: The present study aimed to assess the psychiatric characteristics of children with chronic functional constipation using the Aberrant Behavior Checklist-Japanese version and the Pervasive Developmental Disorders/Autism Society Japan Rating Scale, and to examine the frequency of autism spectrum disorder in children with chronic functional constipation. We also investigated differences in treatment duration between children with and without autism spectrum disorder.

Methods: Treatment outcomes were examined retrospectively for 55 participants (chronic functional constipation group: n = 30, mean age 3.

Prescribing Patterns in Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry: A Retrospective Cohort Study of Prescriptions in the First Year.

Objective: Recently, excessive and off-label prescribing of psychotropic drugs for children and adolescents have become a problem. Child and adolescent psychiatric patients receive treatment in many departments and department-specific psychotropic drug use has not been analyzed. We surveyed prescriptions for child and adolescent psychiatric outpatients during their first year of treatment.