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Table 5 Numbers of children with a psychological or social diagnosis who received psychopharmacological prescriptions in Eureka practices, before and during intervention

From: A new approach to child mental healthcare within general practice

 

Eureka practices

t-test: pre-test (2009) vs post-test (2011)

 

Before intervention

During intervention

Year

2009

2011

 

 Number of children with psychological or social diagnosis

183

253

 

 Number of children with any psychopharmacological prescription

18 (10 %)

24 (9.5 %)

n.s.

  -Analgesics

0

0

n.s.

  -Antipsychotics

0

0

n.s.

  -Benzodiazepines

2 (1.1 %)

1 (.4 %)

n.s

  -SSRIs

1 (.6 %)

2 (.8 %)

n.s

  -Psychostimulants

11 6.0 %)

17 (6.7 %)

n.s.

  -Other

4 (2.2 %)

5 (2.0 %)

n.s.

  1. n.s not significant