Estimating the burden of psychiatric disorders in adolescence: the impact of subthreshold disorders

We examine the impact of including subthreshold disorders on estimating psychiatric morbidity burden in adolescents. To more fully understand this burden it is important to focus on both full syndrome and subthreshold disorders and the impairment associated with each, since evidence suggests prevalence of subthreshold disorders is substantial as is impairment. Data were analyzed from a probability sample of 4,175 youths 11–17 years of age. We...