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Status unknownNCT04762394Updated Feb 21, 2021

Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescent at Egypt

An observational study in Child Behavior Disorders, Child Mental Disorder and Adolescent Behaviour Disorder, sponsored by Assiut University. Status unknown at 1 site in Egypt. Open to participants aged 2 Years to 18 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-02-21.

Sponsored by Assiut University · Observational

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Study type
Observational
Model
Ecologic or community
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
400
Ages
2 Years to 18 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Pediatric, developmental and mental health problems are more common than renal, cardiac and renal problems.

Compartmental problems were often conceptualised across two broad spectrums: internalising intrapersonal problems like anxiety, depression and withdrawal and externalising problems such as Interpersonal problems such as hyperactivity and aggression.

Mental disorders with long-term consequences can result in children and adolescents, undermining health compliance and reducing societies' ability to be safe and productive. As, children and adolescent have long-term deteriorating effects of mental health problems are often serious.

Early detection and identification of problems are in the best interest of children, adolescents, their families, and the community as a whole. All three are important.

how epidemiology can help our understanding of children and adolescent mental health: the burden of the community, measurement and tracking highly significant.

This study will display the first large-scale study of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in the Egypt . to provide services, including prevention and intervention based on evidence of mental health, a population-representative child survey and adolescent mental estimates disorders were needed urgently

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Conditions studied

  • Child Behavior Disorders
  • Child Mental Disorder
  • Adolescent Behaviour Disorder

Keywords

  • child
  • adolescent
  • psychiatry
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In context

Child Behavior Disorders

35 studies on the registry are indexed under Child Behavior Disorders; 10 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 400 is above the median of 350 across 10 observational studies indexed under Child Behavior Disorders.

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Lead sponsor

Assiut University is the lead sponsor of 5,078 studies on the registry; 2,178 are open to participants now.

Of its 14 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
2 Years to 18 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

This is study will take part in community study( nursery and schools).

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Inclusion criteria

  1. age of children (2-18 years)
  2. both males and females.
  3. living in Egypt.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • unwilling parent to recruited in the study.
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Study design

Observational model
Ecologic or community
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
400 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Interventions

  • BehavioralThe Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL),

    It consists of 113 items; the parents complete it to detect emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years. It is scored on a three-point Likert scale (0=absent, 1= occurs sometimes, 2=occurs often). The time duration for item responses is the past six months.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. measure the prevalence of DSM 5 psychiatric disorders in the community sample of school children in Assiut government.

    by using The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL):It consists of 113 items, the parents complete it to detect emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents .It includes open-ended items covering physical problems, concerns, and strengths. The CBCL/6-18 yields scores on internalizing, externalizing, and total problems as well as scores on DSM-5 related scales.It is providing a total behaviour problem score and two second order factor scores for internalizing problems (anxious/depressed, somatic complaints, withdrawn/depressed) and externalizing behaviour (rule breaking behaviour and aggressive problems).

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year

  2. measure of risk factor of DSM 5 psychiatric disorders in the community sample of school children in Assiut government.

    Patients were subjected to a full psychiatric and medical assessment at the beginning of the study. A semistructured form was prepared by researchers to detect sociodemographic and clinical variables of the patients, and the medical history of the patients were reviewed. Information gathered included age, sex, birth order, pregnancy problems, delivery type, birth complications, delay of speech development, delay of motor development, family history of consanguinity

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 21, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04762394
Lead sponsor
Assiut University
Responsible party
Gellan Karamalllah Ramadan Ahmed (lecturer, resarcher OF Neurology and Psychiatry department, Assiut University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 21, 2021
Start date
Feb 20, 2021 (estimated)
Primary completion
Feb 20, 2022 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 20, 2023 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 21, 2021

Study contacts

gellan Ahmed, PhD
Contact
gillankaram@aun.edu.eg
+201093663928

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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