Assessment of Children upon Suffering from Withdrawals Signs in Baghdad City, Iraq Hasan Abdulmahdi A.* Assistant professor Ph. D., Pediatric & Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing, Babylon University, Iraq *Corresponding author: Abdulmahdi A. Hasan, Assistant Professor Ph. D., Pediatric & Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing, Babylon University, Iraq
Online published on 27 November, 2019. Abstract Aims of the Study To identify the age at which the diagnosis of withdrawals signs was made and sex distribution of isolation, role of the family history in autism, the prevalence of autism among children with psychiatric disorders. Also, to determine the main clinical features and other associations with features of withdrawal. A prospective study included a sample of 208 children with psychiatric disorder, whom attended to psychiatric teaching hospital in Baghdad evaluated for the criteria of withdrawal Patients whom had withdrawal evaluated regarding to the age at the diagnosis, sex, family history and clinical characters included the main clinical characteristics and other associated characteristics of withdrawal. about 208 patients register psychiatric problem, 33(15.87%) met criteria for withdrawal, the mean age at which the diagnosis of withdrawal made was 5.45 years with the boys more predominant than girls. Three main clinical features of withdrawal are communication abnormality, social abnormality and behavioral abnormality, the communication abnormality was most common feature. Other associated features included enuresis, encopresis, sleep problems, over activity and anxiety, the commonest one was enuresis. Seizure and macrocephaly are important clinical traits of isolation presented in 12% and 9.1% respectively. Top Keywords Descriptive study, children, withdrawal. Top |