A study of psychiatric morbidity and substance use pattern among the adolescents attending department of psychiatry of a tertiary hospital in Northeastern India

Pattern of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders at a Tertiary Care Centre in North India

“…The Global Burden of Disease Study found idiopathic developmental intellectual disability to be most prevalent mental disorder (4.5%), although the prevalence of conduct disorder (0.8%), ADHD and Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) (0.4% each) was also significant. [1]] Majumder et al [12] assessed the adolescents in North-East India and found that the prevalence of neurotic, stress-related, and somatoform disorders was as high as 41%, followed by disorders of substance use abuse (21%).…”