The 2007 PrISMA study found the observed prevalence of one or more of the assessed mental disorders among Italian children aged 10-14 was 8.2%.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by the peer-reviewed PrISMA study publication (Frigerio et al. 2009) and consistently cited in multiple independent secondary sources with matching figures and confidence intervals.
Sources
- Salute mentale epidemiologia in Italia (epicentro.iss.it)
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00787-008-0720-x (link.springer.com)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19165539/?dopt=Abstract (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3972618/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13052-024-01670-5 (link.springer.com)