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Table 2 Frequency of the overall diagnosis by gender

From: Diagnostic profiles and predictors of treatment outcome among children and adolescents attending a national psychiatric hospital in Botswana

Frequency of overall diagnosis

Gender

Chi square

p value

Male N (%)

Female N (%)

ADHD

47 (78.3)

13 (21.7)

10.672

0.01

DBD

31 (70.5)

13 (29.5)

2.236

0.135

Epilepsy

15 (53.6)

13 (46.4)

0.638

0.424

Substance related do

28 (82.4)

6 (17.6)

7.924

0.005

Autism

11 (91.7)

1 (8.3)

5.135

0.031*

Mental retardation

24 (82.8)

5 (17.2)

6.844

0.009

Bipolar mood do

3 (50.0)

3 (50.0)

0.284

0.683*

Depressive do

3 (16.7)

15 (83.3)

15.660

<0.01*

Psychosis

27 (77.1)

8 (22.9)

4.754

0.029

Anxiety disorder

5 (31.2)

11 (68.8)

6.143

0.013

Adjustment do

9 (31.0)

20 (69.0)

12.002

0.001

Enuresis

7 (70.0)

2 (30.0)

0.408

0.744*

Somatoform do

2 (33.3)

4 (66.7)

1.902

0.174*

Others

7 (58.3)

5 (41.7)

0.25

0.875

  1. do disorder, DBD disruptive behavior disorders include conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity, psychosis schizophrenia and other psychotic do, Others Tic do, obsessive compulsive do, stress related do, organic do
  2. * Fisher’s exact test
  3. N* = 238. Significant relationships in italics