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Trends in the Prevalence of Developmental Disabilities in US Children, 1997–2008
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Autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other developmental delays increased, whereas hearing loss showed a significant decline, and trends were found in all of the sociodemographic subgroups, except for autism in non-Hispanic black children.
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Trends in the parent-report of health care provider-diagnosed and medicated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: United States, 2003-2011.
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Immune neglect: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting.
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The present experiments suggest that people neglect the psychological immune system when making affective forecasts.
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Mental health surveillance among children--United States, 2005-2011.
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This report summarizes information about ongoing federal surveillance systems that can provide estimates of the prevalence of mental disorders and indicators of mental health among children living in the United States during 2005-2011, explains limitations, and identifies gaps in information while presenting strategies to bridge those gaps.
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The effectiveness of a short form of the Household Food Security Scale.
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The short form of the Household Food Security Scale is a brief but potentially useful tool for national surveys and some state/local applications.
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Estimated Prevalence of Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities Following Questionnaire Changes in the 2014 National Health Interview Survey.
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Survey-based estimates of the lifetime prevalence of ASD, intellectual disability (ID), and any other developmental delay (other DD) following the inclusion of a standalone ASD question, theclusion of specific diagnoses in the ASDquestion, and the ASD question preceding the other DD question are examined.
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Changes in prevalence of parent-reported autism spectrum disorder in school-aged U.S. children: 2007 to 2011-2012.
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The results of the cohort analyses increase confidence that differential survey measurement error over time was not a major contributor to observed changes in the prevalence of parent-reported ASD.
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Prevalence of Parent-Reported ADHD Diagnosis and Associated Treatment Among U.S. Children and Adolescents, 2016
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There is a large population of U.S. children and adolescents who have been diagnosed with ADHD by a health care provider, and many, but not all, of these children received treatment that appears to be consistent with professional guidelines, though the survey questions are limited in detail about specific treatment types received.
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Identifying children with special health care needs: development and evaluation of a short screening instrument.
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Results of this study indicate that the CSHCN Screener requires minimal time to administer, is acceptable for use as both an interview-based and self-administered survey, and that rates of children positively identified vary according to child demographic, health, and health care-need characteristics.
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Prevalence of Parent-Reported Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children in the US, 2007
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The observed point-prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in the US is higher than previous US estimates, and more inclusive survey questions, increased population awareness, and improved screening and identification by providers may partly explain this finding.
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