Internationally adopted children: not only infectious diseases!

J Travel Med. 2018 Jan 1;25(1). doi: 10.1093/jtm/tay036.

Abstract

Information on prevalence of special needs in internationally adopted children (IAC) is incomplete. We reviewed data from 422 IAC screened at a single Centre in Italy in 2015-16. Prevalence of special needs reached 17.1% (n = 72). Among these children, the most frequent conditions were fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD; n = 30; 7.1%), cleft lip palate (n = 8; 1.9%) and other congenital malformations (n = 20; 4.7%). Worrisomely, 25 out of 52 (48.1%) Russian children presented with FASD.

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Child, Adopted / statistics & numerical data*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Communicable Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Congenital Abnormalities / epidemiology*
  • Female
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders / epidemiology*
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders / ethnology
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Italy / epidemiology
  • Logistic Models
  • Male
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Pregnancy
  • Prevalence
  • Russia / ethnology