The Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth
Archives of General PsychiatryPublished 1 December 1996
E. Jane Costello
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Poverty was the strongest demographic correlate of diagnosis, in both urban and rural children, in this rural sample of children.
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The prevalence of psychiatric disorder in this rural sample was similar to rates reported in other recent studies. Poverty was the strongest demographic correlate of diagnosis, in both urban and rural children.
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