Anjum Farooq, Sadida Bahawal, Imran Sarwar, Aamir Mushtaq, Muhammad Asghar Butt.
Habit Disorders; Frequency of Habit Disorders in Children Coming To Outpaitent Department of Allied Hospital Faisalabad.
Professional Med J Jan ;25(5):654-8.

Introduction: Childhood habit behaviors appear in numerous different forms. Many people engage in some degree of habit like behavior in their lifetime. For example, habits can range from seemingly benign behaviors, such as nail biting or foot tapping, to more noticeable physically damaging behaviors, such as teeth grinding (bruxism) and hair pulling. Habit disorders, now subsumed under the diagnostic term stereotypic movement disorder, consist of repetitive, seemingly driven, and nonfunctional motor behaviors that interfere with normal activities or that result in bodily injury. Objectives: To determine the frequency of different habit disorders in children coming to outpatient department of Pediatrics unit of Allied Hospital Faisalabad. Study design: Cross sectional study. Setting: Pediatric department of Allied Hospital Faisalabad. Duration of study: 1 year 06 months. (From 01-03-2015 to 01-09- 2016). Results: We determined that majority of the patients i.e. 40.68%(n=72) were between 49-72 months, mean and sd was 54.23+21.45 months of age, 54.80%(n=97) male and 45.20%(n=80) females, frequency of different habit disorders in children coming to outpatient department of pediatrics unit of Allied Hospital, Faisalabad revealed 19.31%(n=34), nail biting, 22.03%(n=39) had thumb sucking, 41.81%(n=74) had bruxism, 11.86%(n=21) had hair pulling and 10.17%(n=18) subjects had other habits. Conclusion: We concluded that the frequency of different habit disorders i.e. nail biting, thumb sucking, bruxism, hair pulling and other is higher among children coming to outpatient department of Pediatrics unit of Allied Hospital Faisalabad and comparable with other studies.

PakMediNet -Pakistan's largest Database of Pakistani Medical Journals - http://www.pakmedinet.com