Demographic and clinical characteristics of children seeking psychiatric services in the Nile Delta region: an observational retrospective study

摘要

BackgroundEpidemiological studies, describing both community and clinical samples of youth in need for psychiatric help, are rare in the middle east. To our knowledge, this is the first study that aims to investigate the demographic and clinical characteristics of a sample of children suffering from emotional and behavioral problems seeking psychiatric services in the Nile Delta region and the largest clinical sample to date in Egypt.