Sentences with phrase «fulfilling diagnostic criteria»

Children fulfilling diagnostic criteria for ADHD based on this rating of DAWBA proceed to Step 2, which includes a confirmatory clinical interview with parents at the hospital, using the Kiddie - Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K - SADS, ADHD section)[62].

Among pregnancies for which screening occurred at Mount Sinai Hospital (n = 44 110), 859 (1.9 %) fulfilled the diagnostic criterion of a very high 1 - hour glucose concentration of 10.3 mmol / L or more for the 50 - g glucose challenge test.

28 patients fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for both DSM - IV Hypochondriasis and Health anxiety (Table 1)[2].

It is estimated that over half of all male prisoners in Europe and North America fulfill the diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder (APD; Moran 1999).

About 5 % of all children in the Western world fulfill diagnostic criteria for attention deficit — hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 1 and a large proportion of such children are treated pharmacologically.2 ADHD has been associated with criminality3, 4 and externalizing disorders.5 Beneficial short - term effects of ADHD medication on symptoms of ADHD and associated conduct problems have been shown in numerous randomized, controlled studies involving children6 - 8 and adults.9 - 11 ADHD symptoms are largely persistent from childhood into adulthood, 12 but one prominent feature of ADHD treatment is that the discontinuation of medication is common, 13,14 especially in adolescence and early adulthood.15 The importance of treatment discontinuation for criminality and other longer - term outcomes is largely unknown.

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Patients had to fulfil the following criteria: a diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychosis, or delusional disorder according to criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edition, revised11; no evidence of organic brain disease; substance abuse not identified as the primary problem; age between 18 and 65 years; presence of persistent hallucinations or delusions, or both, for a minimum of 6 months and at least 1 month of stabilisation if they had experienced an exacerbation during this period; stable medication; no psychological or family intervention; their responsible medical officer had given permission for them to enter the study; no serious threat of violence towards the assessors; and they had given informed consent to participate.