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Objective: to describe the demographic characteristics and prevalence of some mental disorders in a group of homeless children and adolescents attending a homeless shelter Methods: a transversal descriptive study was performed in 148 children and adolescents in whom sociodemographic aspects were assessed, and the prevalence of some mental disorders was established through MINI KID. Results: mean age was 14.8 years and 85.1 % were male; 50% were living in the street at least for 24 months and parental abuse (43.2%) was the most frequent reason for leaving home. 85.8% had at least one of the mental disorders evaluated with substance dependence (58.1%), conduct disorder (54%) and oppositional defiant disorder (49.3%) as the three main diagnoses found. Conclusions: prevalence of mental disorders in street children and adolescents was similar to that reported in other countries for the same population. We found substance dependence as the most prevalent disorder and parental abuse the main reason for living in the street [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study was to strengthen the prevalence of mental disorders and psycho-social tensors in outpatients in psychology at Saint Bonaventure University, Medellin - Colombia. In the study, 106 users took part in it (35.8% men and 64% women) with an average age of 26.8 years, who were given the neuropsychiatric international interview (Scheehan and Lecrubier, 1998) and the assessment format of the Axis IV of the DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2002). The disorders of major prevalence were risk of suicide (28.30%), past major depression (26.41%) and current major depression 20.75%), depression with melancholy (15.10%), disorders due to the use of non-alcoholic substances 15.09%) , anguish disorder (14.15%) , generalized anxiety (13.20%), past hypomania 2.26%), social phobia (10.37%), and abuse and dependence of alcohol (10.37%). The related psycho-social tensors were the issues referring to the primary group (47 .8%), the social ambiance 39.1%) and teaching-related problems (13%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]