Parental concerns about their child's emotions and behaviour and referral to specialist services: general population survey.

form of salary support for staff members (JAL and CH) and funding for RB and DRH. WHO staff members received no external funding. Members of the WHO-CHOICE team helped frame the questions for the analysis and provided guidance on standardised methods. DRH and JAS were supported by a grant (P01 AG17625) from the National Institute on Aging, which had no role in the study design, execution, or reporting. for the WHO-CHOICE MDG Team. Achieving the millennium development goals for health: Methods to assess the costs and health effects of interventions for improving health in developing countries. Where are the gaps? The effects of HIV-prevention interventions on behavioral change. Can we reverse the HIV/AIDS pandemic with an expanded response? Impact of improved treatment of sexually transmitted diseases on HIV infection in rural Tanzania: randomised controlled trial. Control of sexually transmitted diseases for AIDS prevention in Uganda: a randomised community trial. management of sexually-transmitted infections and behaviour change interventions on transmission of HIV-1 in rural Uganda: a community randomised trial. Control of sexually transmitted diseases for HIV-1 prevention: understanding the implications of the Mwanza and Rakai trials. et al. HIV dynamics and behaviour change as determinants of the impact of sexually transmitted disease treatment on HIV transmission in the context of the Rakai trial. Sewankambo NK, et al. Can population differences explain the contrasting results of the Mwanza, Rakai, and Masaka HIV/sexually transmitted disease intervention trials?: A modeling study. Antiretroviral drugs and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection in resource-limited settings. Childhood psychiatric disorders are common and are associated with heavy use of health services. 1 Up to a third of children and adolescents attending primary care and paediatric outpatient departments have clinically significant psychopathology. 2 3 Only a minority of these children reach specialist mental health services, partly because the presenting complaint is rarely psychological, so their disorders may not be recog-nised. 2 4 Child mental health services may reject inappropriate referrals leading to frustration among referrers and families. Although medical professionals often depend on parental concerns to identify affected children, we do not know how predictive they are. We used empirical data from the 1999 British child and adolescent mental health survey to examine how predictive parental perceptions of psychological difficulties were of psychiatric disorder and to provide simple strategies to aid clinicians in identifying children requiring referral. We used the child benefit register to select a nationally …