Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 453-463.e1 , May 2010

Psychiatric Disorders in Extremely Preterm Children: Longitudinal Finding at Age 11 Years in the EPICure Study

  • Samantha Johnson, Ph.D., CPsychol.

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Women's Health, University College London and the School of Clinical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
    • ,
  • Chris Hollis, Ph.D., MRCPsych.

      Affiliations

    • Developmental Psychiatry Section, Division of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Prof. Chris Hollis, Developmental Psychiatry, South Block E Floor, Queen's Medial Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
    • ,
  • Puja Kochhar, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Developmental Psychiatry Section, Division of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, UK
    • ,
  • Enid Hennessy, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK
    • ,
  • Dieter Wolke, Ph.D., Dipl-Psych, CPsychol.

      Affiliations

    • Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick, UK
    • ,
  • Neil Marlow, D.M., FMedSci.

      Affiliations

    • University College London, UK

,Accepted 4 February 2010.

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 This article is the subject of an editorial by Dr. Joan L. Luby on page 439.

 Supplemental material cited in this article is available online.

 This study was supported by the Medical Research Council (MRC), UK.

 Support for DAWBA data collection and analysis was provided by Professor Robert Goodman (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London).

 Disclosure: Drs. Johnson, Hollis, Kochhar, Hennessy, Wolke, and Marlow report no biomedical financial interests of potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(10)00142-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2010.02.002

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 5 , Pages 453-463.e1 , May 2010

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