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Mental health of infants in foster care
  1. Rachel Pritchett1,
  2. William McKinnon2,
  3. Christopher Gillberg3,
  4. Helen Minnis1
  1. 1 University of Glasgow, Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow, UK
  2. 2 University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
  3. 3 University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
  1. Correspondence to Rachel Pritchett, University of Glasgow, Caledonia House, Yorkhill Hospital, Dalnair Street, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK; Rachel.pritchett{at}glasgow.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-307086

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    It is now well established that children in foster care are at increased risks of experiencing mental health problems, for example, Ford et al 1 described findings from 1453 looked after and accommodated children in a sample of over 10 000 children aged 5–15 years and found that 46.4% of the accommodated children received a diagnosis compared with 8.5% of the general population. Our team2 conducted a systematic review examining the way child characteristics affected child outcomes from care and found that, of the studies which found an effect of age on outcome, three-quarters found more positive outcomes, in terms of finding a permanent placement, for children who entered care at …

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    • Contributors The in-care sample data was collected by RP, the normative sample data was collected by WM. HM is the PI for the larger RCt which this is a part of, and together with CG they designed this study and supported data collection. All authors contributed to the write up.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Ethics approval West of Scotland NHS Research Ethics Committee five and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (Research and Development Committee).

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.