Tourette disorder: A cross-cultural review

Staley, Douglas; Wand, R.R.; Shady, Gary A.

doi:10.1016/s0010-440x(97)90047-x

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“…Such relatively high misdiagnosis indicates that the medical workers in Wenzhou did not have complete understanding of this disease or the parents who did not recognize their children's abnormal behavior and illness. Staley et al [7] reported that the mean age at onset of TS is 7 years, and the onset of typical cases is at 2-15 years; our result on the age of onset (average 7.7 years old) is consistent with an earlier report with 3500 TS patients in 22 countries [1]. Cases in 4-6 years old children with multiple motor and vocal tics have poor prognosis.…”

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Epidemiological Survey of Tourette Syndrome in Children and Adolescents in Wenzhou of P.R. China

Jin

Zheng

Huang³

et al. 2005

Eur J Epidemiol

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An epidemiological survey on Tourette syndrome (TS) in a developing country is relatively scarce. This study was conducted to investigate the prevalence and distribution of TS in children and juveniles aged 7-16 years in Wenzhou of P.R. China. A total of 9742 children and adolescents were included in this survey. Cross-sectional study with stratified-cluster sampling method was used. The prevalence of TS among school-age children was estimated to be an average of 0.43%. The ratio of male to female was 10.6 to 1 (0.74% for males and 0.07% for females). Pupils in the age range of 7-16 years are more likely to have comorbid disorders. The mean age at onset of TS was 7.7+/-2.7 years, with 45.2% of them at the age of 6-7. The rate of delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis and misclassification of the syndrome were 78.6, 42.9 and 23.8%, respectively. This survey supports that TS is a common disease prevalent amongst children and juveniles in Wenzhou area of P.R. China, and its incidence was correlated with age and sex and often misdiagnosed and misclassified.

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“…The cross-cultural study on TS by Staley et al [7] in 1997 indicates that males are more likely to get this disease, and the male:female ratio is 3:1-4:1. Although the ratio differs greatly in different studies, they all show that males are more likely to suffer from this disease than females.…”

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Epidemiological Survey of Tourette Syndrome in Children and Adolescents in Wenzhou of P.R. China

Jin

Zheng

Huang³

et al. 2005

Eur J Epidemiol

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“…TD is a lifelong neuropsychological disorder that affects approximately 0.05% to 3% of the population, usually beginning in childhood around the age of 6 or 7 (Freeman et al, 2000;Robertson, 2000;Staley, Wand, & Shady, 1997). TD is thought to be genetically determined often running in families with members who also have TD and/or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD, a variant of TD, Comings, 1990;Robertson, 2000), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, Freeman et al, 2000).…”

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Perceived Social Support and Caregiver Strain in Caregivers of Children with Tourette’s Disorder

Schoeder

Remer

2007

J Child Fam Stud

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The research on Tourette's disorder (TD), a neuropsychological disorder consisting of motor and phonic tics, has largely focused on individuals with TD and not on the caregivers of children with TD. We investigated the effects of several variables on caregiver strain of caregivers of children with TD, including perceived social support, caregiver characteristics, and characteristics of the child's disorder. An online survey was completed by 140 caregivers of children with TD between the ages of 6 to 18 years. We performed a path analysis to examine the outcome of caregiver strain in relation to the research variables. Our results indicated that caregiver age, symptom severity of the child's TD, and perceived social support accounted for variance in caregiver strain, and that perceived social support was a partial mediator of child's symptom severity and caregiver strain. Symptom severity and caregiver strain were also related to the presence of other comorbid disorders, such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), anxiety, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when compared to children either having no other comorbid disorders or other types of disorders.

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“…While 'pure' TS rates are still quite low (1.9-6.7 per 10 000 [Tanner, 1997]), when TS is included with other, less serious tic disorders that occur in up to 25% of school-age children, it results in tic disorders being regarded as among the most common childhood neuropsychiatric disorders. Again, the psychiatric epidemiologic literature suggests there are similar rates cross-culturally (Staley et al, 1997). OCD, characterized by intrapsychic repetitive thoughts and behaviors the individual cannot stop themselves from doing, and doing in a repetitive way, and TS, with its bizarre movements and vocalizations, may seem to be unrelated.…”

Section: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndromementioning

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Dissatisfied Seekers: Efficacy in Traditional Healing of Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Bali

Lemelson

2009

Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers

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Tourette disorder: A cross-cultural review

Cited by 46 publications

References 25 publications

Epidemiological Survey of Tourette Syndrome in Children and Adolescents in Wenzhou of P.R. China

Epidemiological Survey of Tourette Syndrome in Children and Adolescents in Wenzhou of P.R. China

Perceived Social Support and Caregiver Strain in Caregivers of Children with Tourette’s Disorder

Dissatisfied Seekers: Efficacy in Traditional Healing of Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Bali

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