Mental Illness: Children

(asked on 19th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2017 to Question 118225, on mental illness: children, whether his Department plans to collect such information centrally; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 27th February 2018

The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014 published its report in 2016 and is available here:

https://digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB21748

7,500 people aged 16 or more were interviewed. Although the content in the published report did not include a section on the correlation between child sexual abuse and subsequent diagnosis of a mental health condition, questions on the experience of sexual abuse were included in the questionnaires and are therefore present in the full dataset. The Department will explore the feasibility of further analysis of the dataset to investigate the correlation between experience of sexual abuse under 16 years old and the prevalence of mental health conditions in adulthood.

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