FREQUENCY OF EMOTIONAL DISORDERS AND BEHAVIOR DISTURBANCES IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS OF AGINSKIY DISTRICT OF BURYAT REGION

Abstract

Aimed at studying the prevalence of emotional disorders and behavior disturbances in children and adolescents of Aginskiy district of Buryatskiy region (okrug), we had been examining 2 572 schoolchildren picked up by random (1 487 primary schoolchildren and 1 085 adolescents). We were using M.Ratter's questionnairy (B2 scale for teachers). Frequency of emotional disorders and behavior disturbances in primary school children was 8.6 %, and in adolescents it was 7.3 %. We marked disorders in boys 2-4 times more frequent than in girls. The shares of behavior disturbances and hyperkinetic disturbances are the largest in the structure.

Keywords

• ratter's questionnairy
• prevalence
• frequency
• emotional disorders
• behavior disturbances
• children
• adolescents
• the buryats
• ethnos
• the natives