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Autism Among Children Attending Pediatric Psychiatric Department in Child's Central Teaching Hospital in Baghdad: a Descreptive Study

    Entissar Hadi AL- Shimery Jaafar Muhamed Hassan AL- Ghabban Haider Abdul Muhsin

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2010, Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 504-511

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ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND:
Autism is a spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders that affects children from all ethnic and
socioeconomic backgrounds. The diagnosis is based on their developmental and medical history as well
as observations of their social, communicative, and play behaviors that usually begin before age of three
years.
OBJECTIVE:
A descriptive study of autism to describe the prevalence of autism among childhood psychiatric
disorders, the age for diagnosis of autism, sex distribution, family history and the clinical features of
autism.
PATIENTS AND METHODS:
A cross-sectional study included a sample of 208 children with psychiatric disorder, who were
attending pediatric psychiatric department evaluated for the criteria of autism. Data collected were
including (the age at the diagnosis, sex, family history and clinical characters included the main clinical
features and other associated features of autism).
RESULTS:
Of the 208 patients registered psychiatric problem, 33(15.87%) met criteria for autism, the mean age for
the diagnosis of autism was 5.45 years with the boys more predominant than girls. Three main clinical
features of autism are communication abnormality, social abnormality and behavioral abnormality. The
communication abnormality were the most commonest features. Other associated features included
enuresis (the commonest), encopresis, sleep problems, over activity and anxiety. Macrocephaly and
seizure are important clinical characters of autism presented in 12% and 9.1% respectively.
CONCLUSION:
Autism is not rare and autistic children represent a significant subgroup of children with serious
psychiatric disturbance. Speech delay and abnormalities in language are the hallmark features of
autistic disturbance.
Keywords:
    Autism children Pediatric psychiatric department
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(2010). Autism Among Children Attending Pediatric Psychiatric Department in Child's Central Teaching Hospital in Baghdad: a Descreptive Study. Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal, 9(4), 504-511.
Entissar Hadi AL- Shimery; Jaafar Muhamed Hassan; AL- Ghabban; Haider Abdul Muhsin. "Autism Among Children Attending Pediatric Psychiatric Department in Child's Central Teaching Hospital in Baghdad: a Descreptive Study". Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal, 9, 4, 2010, 504-511.
(2010). 'Autism Among Children Attending Pediatric Psychiatric Department in Child's Central Teaching Hospital in Baghdad: a Descreptive Study', Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal, 9(4), pp. 504-511.
Autism Among Children Attending Pediatric Psychiatric Department in Child's Central Teaching Hospital in Baghdad: a Descreptive Study. Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2010; 9(4): 504-511.
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