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Table 4 Intervention strategies agreement with Maudsley guidelines per prescriber

From: Prescribed psychiatric interventions for children presented to a university psychiatric clinic in Egypt: a descriptive cross-sectional study

Prescriber

Agreement of prescriptions with Maudsley guidelines

P value

Poor agreement

Partial agreement

Agreement

No. (%)

No. (%)

No. (%)

Pediatrician (n = 65)

42 (60.0%)

23 (33.8%)

4 (6.1%)

≤ 0.001

Neurologist (n = 40)

31 (77.5%)

8 (20.0%)

1 (2.5%)

Psychiatrist (n = 167)

41 (24.6%)

62 (37.1%)

64 (38.3%)

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