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Child mental health

G/WEDS/MEN1 ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE OF EARLY ONSET EATING DISORDERS: POTENTIAL FOR A CHILD PSYCHIATRIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
R. Lynn, D. Nicholls, R. Viner.Institute of Child Health, London, UK

Background: Rare disease and infections are by definition individually uncommon, but collectively are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood. For 20 years the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit (BPSU) has been successful in addressing this via the collection of national data on rare childhood conditions. Many such conditions affect a child’s mental wellbeing but their epidemiology cannot be investigated without the input of child and adolescent psychiatrists.

Aims: (1) To evaluate a system set up to undertake surveillance of early onset eating disorders (EOED); (2) to undertake an evaluation of the clinicians views on such a system; (3) identify potential areas for future study.

Method: For a period of 15 months from March 2005 a yellow card, modelled on the BPSU orange card, was sent monthly to child and adolescent psychiatrists identified through the Royal College . . . [Full text of this article]