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Table 5 Percentages of youths who received a psychotropic prescription in 2008, specified per mental health problem

From: Child and adolescent mental health care in Dutch general practice: time trend analyses

 

Mental health problems

(P01-P99)

Anxiety (P01, P74)

Depression (P03, P76)

Overactivity (P21)

N patients

4954

389

234

743

Any psychotropic prescription

    

   0-12 years

15.22

11.19

10.87

60.37

   13-18 years

29.39

23.58

35.64

74.71

Antipsychotics (N05A)

    

   0-12 years

2.11

0.00

2.17

6.43

   13-18 years

4.05

1.63

3.72

9.58

Anxiolytics (N05B)

    

   0-12 years

0.89

3.50

0.00

0.21

   13-18 years

5.29

14.63

9.57

1.15

Hypnotics and sedatives (N05C)

    

   0-12 years

1.74

0.00

2.17

4.36

   13-18 years

4.76

3.25

5.85

4.21

Antidepressants (N06A)

    

   0-12 years

0.37

0.00

6.52

1.24

   13-18 years

5.65

7.32

25.00

3.07

Psychostimulants (N06BA04, N06BA09)

   

   0-12 years

12.22

7.69

2.17

56.64

   13-18 years

15.29

1.22

2.13

68.97

  1. Prescriptions for alcohol abuse are not reported, because of the low prevalence of alcohol abuse in this sample (see Table 2).