Short-term trends in Dutch children's attention problems

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 73-80

  De Jong, P F ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment Dutch children; Attention problems; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; DYSLEXIA; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RESTLESSNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; TEACHER;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030871474     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007870050011     Document Type: Article

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