Prevalence of DSM-IV Intermittent Explosive Disorder in Black Adolescents: Findings From the National Survey of American Life, Adolescent Supplement.

Prevalence of DSM-IV Intermittent Explosive Disorder in Black Adolescents: Findings From the National Survey of American Life, Adolescent Supplement. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2016 Apr 14; Authors: Oliver DG, Caldwell CH, Faison N, Sweetman JA, Abelson JM, Jackson JS Abstract Little is known about the epidemiology of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV) intermittent explosive disorder (IED) in adolescents, and no information is currently available regarding the relationship between race/ethnicity and IED among Black youth in the United States. Using the World Health Organization World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview (Adolescent Version), we estimated the prevalence, severity, and disability of IED in a national, probability sample of African American and Caribbean Black youth (ages 13-17) from the National Survey of American Life, Adolescent Supplement. Face-to-face surveys of 810 African American and 360 Caribbean Black youth were conducted between 2001 and 2003. We calculated lifetime and 12-month diagnoses of IED using diagnostic algorithms based on DSM-IV and assessed IED disability using a modified Sheehan Disability Scale. Overall findings indicated lifetime and 12-month IED prevalence rates of 9.2% and 7.0%, respectively. Lifetime prevalence rates of IED were 9.0% for African American and 12.4% for Caribbean Black teens. Within the past 12 months, 6.7% of African Americ...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Am J Orthopsychiatry Source Type: research