Prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in children and adolescents one year after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 CBCL and YSR-defined Cases by age groups and proximity to disaster and symptoms at CBCL by proximity to disaster

	Epicentre	Remainder earthquake zone	Unaffected areas	Total		p
	(%)	(%)	(%)	N	%	p
CBCL-defined cases
Total sample	14.9	13.0	13.9	1698	13.9	0.876
Children 3-5ys	8.5	10.3	11.1	545	10.8	0.853
Children 6-10ys	22.9	13.4	15.5	741	15.9	0.218
Children 11-14ys	8.1	15.4	14.9	412	14.3	0.525
YSR-defined cases
Children 11-14ys	7.9	0.0	4.7	426	4.5	0.198
CBCL symptoms
Total	9.2	6.5	6.9	1698	7.1	0.465
Internalizing	10.6	13.6	11.7	1698	11.7	0.674
Externalizing	5.3	5.8	4.0	1698	4.4	0.450
Affective	5.2	2.9	3.3	1698	3.4	0.426
Anxiety	11.0	5.3	6.7	1698	6.9	0.085
PTS^a	8.4	4.0	2.2	1153	3.0	0.002
Somatic^a	5.6	0.7	2.8	1151	2.8	0.060
ADH	2.4	3.3	2.2	1698	2.4	0.738
Oppositional defiant	1.0	1.3	0.5	1698	0.6	0.436
Conduct^a	0.7	0.9	0.8	1153	0.8	0.972
Pervasive development^a	1.7	0.0	1.6	545	1.5	0.680

Note: Valid numbers (N) are expressed as quantities, all other data are expressed in percentages (%).
Differences among the subsamples from different areas are calculated by χ² test.
ADH, attention deficit and hyperactivity; CBCL, Child Behavior Checklist; PTS, post-traumatic stress; YSR, Youth Self Report.
^aPTS, Somatic and Conduct Scales are available only in the CBCL 6–18 form; Pervasive Development Scale is available only in the CBCL 3–5 form.

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