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Prevalence of Pervasive Developmental Disorders – Croatia in Comparison with Other Countries of the World

Pervasive developmental disorders. This group in‐ cludes, codes and defines the following: childhood autism (F84.0), atypical autism (F84.1), Rett’s syndrome (F84.2), other childhood disintegrative disorder (F84.3), overactive disor‐der associated with mental retardation and stereotyped movements (F84.4), Asperger’s syndrome (F84.5), other pervasive developmental disorders (F84.8), as well as pervasive developmental disorder, unspecified (F84.9). The prevalence of PDDs in the overall population of the Republic of Croatia is about 2- 3/10 000, while in children (population aged 0-18) ca. 1/1000, with three times higher incidence in boys. In Register we see increase (2.6x) number of registrated person with ASD in last seven years (304 registrated person until 01.01.2005. and 792 after that date). One should also be reminded of the need of continual professional training of physicians, special education teachers, psychologists and other professionals in new findings in the areas of diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation of persons with PDDs. By securing this, the advancement of legislation, diagnostics, IT system and the quality of diagnosis recording, as well as sensitizing the public to equation of opportunities for per‐sons with PDDs, will also contribute to advancing the epidemiology of the above disorders.

Pervasive Developmental Disorders, prevalence, Croatia

DOI: 10.5772/51637