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Behavioral and Psychiatric Problems

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Several studies have found that approximately 15% of the people in the United States experience Psychiatric problems per year.1 For example, a study of three metropolitan areas (New Haven, Baltimore, and St. Louis) found that 13.7 to 15.2% of interviewees met diagnostic criteria for the presence of a Psychiatric disorder within the previous 12 months and 23.0 to 25.2% within their lifetime.2

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Magill, M.K., Garrett, R.W. (1988). Behavioral and Psychiatric Problems. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1998-7_32

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