Mental Health Problems of Children of Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers: A Pilot Study
Author: Kupersmidt, Janis B.
Date Published: 1997
Children of migrant/seasonal farmworkers chronically experience extreme poverty and parental unemployment, and are also exposed to chronic residential and school mobility. Mothers and children were interviewed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version 2.1. The results indicated that 66% of the children had one or more psychiatric diagnoses based on mother or child reports, with anxiety disorders being the most prevalent diagnosis. These findings suggest the need for a larger, epidemiological study of the psychiatric morbidity of rural children of farm workers
Date Published: 1997
Children of migrant/seasonal farmworkers chronically experience extreme poverty and parental unemployment, and are also exposed to chronic residential and school mobility. Mothers and children were interviewed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version 2.1. The results indicated that 66% of the children had one or more psychiatric diagnoses based on mother or child reports, with anxiety disorders being the most prevalent diagnosis. These findings suggest the need for a larger, epidemiological study of the psychiatric morbidity of rural children of farm workers
