Title

Ataques De Nervios And Their Psychiatric Correlates In Puerto Rican Children From Two Different Contexts

Keywords

Ataques de nervios; Child psychopathology; Cross-cultural psychiatry; Culture-bound syndromes; Puerto Rican children

Abstract

Among Latino adults and children, ataques de nervios has been associated with an array of psychiatric disorders. Using data from a probability sample of Puerto Rican children, aged 5 to 13 years (N = 2491), we assessed the lifetime prevalence and psychiatric correlates of ataques in youth residing in the South Bronx, New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Baseline site comparisons indicated that between 4% and 5% of children had a lifetime prevalence of ataques (either by child or parent report) and that ataques were associated with greater global impairment and a host of childhood disorders within the previous twelve months. Ataques were also correlated with greater exposure to violence, as well as more stressful life events for the South Bronx sample. After controlling for several covariates, ataques continued to be significantly associated with psychopathology. Ataques are, therefore, a significant correlate of global impairment and childhood psychopathology among Puerto Rican youth. © 2009 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Publication Date

12-1-2009

Publication Title

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volume

197

Issue

12

Number of Pages

923-929

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181c2997d

Socpus ID

73849145381 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/73849145381

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