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Mediators of Psychological Adjustment in Children and Adolescents with Short Stature

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Therapeutic Outcome of Endocrine Disorders

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Abstract

Short stature is defined as growth below the fifth percentile for chronological age, or as height greater than 2 standard deviations (SDS) below the mean height for chronological age (1,2). Approximately 5 percent of all children (1.27 million) have significant short stature (SS) in the United States (2,3). Many posttreatment studies of children and adults treated for growth hormone deficiency (GHD) as children have shown these individuals to have poorer psychological and social adjustment than their normally developing peers (4-7). Higher unemployment rates (5), lower marriage rates (5), and increased incidents of psychiatric disorders and social phobia are reliably reported (7,8).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA

    Brian Stabler Ph.D.

  2. Department of Pediatrics College of Medicine, University of South Florida, All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL, 33701, USA

    Barry B. Bercu M.D.

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Roberts, J.C. et al. (2000). Mediators of Psychological Adjustment in Children and Adolescents with Short Stature. In: Stabler, B., Bercu, B.B. (eds) Therapeutic Outcome of Endocrine Disorders. Serono Symposia USA. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1230-0_12

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