Edbrooke-Childs, Julian;
Rashid, Anisatu;
Ritchie, Benjamin;
Deighton, Jessica;
(2022)
Predictors of child and adolescent mental health treatment outcome.
BMC Psychiatry
, 22
(1)
, Article 229. 10.1186/s12888-022-03837-y.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: To examine the predictors of treatment outcome or improvement in mental health difficulties for young people accessing child and adolescent mental health services. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of routinely collected data from services in England using the Mental Health Services Data Set. We conducted multilevel regressions on N = 5907 episodes from 14 services (Mage = 13.76 years, SDage = 2.45, range = 8-25 years; 3540 or 59.93% female) with complete information on mental health difficulties at baseline. We conduct similar analyses on N = 1805 episodes from 10 services (Mage = 13.59 years, SDage = 2.33, range = 8-24 years; 1120 or 62.05% female) also with complete information on mental health difficulties at follow up. RESULTS: Girls had higher levels of mental health difficulties at baseline than boys (β = 0.28, 95% CI = 0.24-0.32). Young people with higher levels of mental health difficulties at baseline also had higher levels of deterioration in mental health difficulties at follow up (β = 0.72, 95% CI = 0.67-0.76), and girls had higher levels of deterioration in mental health difficulties at follow up than boys (β = 0.09, 95% CI = 0.03-0.16). Young people with social anxiety, panic disorder, low mood, or self-harm had higher levels of mental health difficulties at baseline and of deterioration in mental health difficulties at follow up compared to young people without these presenting problems. CONCLUSIONS: Services seeing higher proportions of young people with higher levels of mental health difficulties at baseline, social anxiety, panic disorder, low mood, or self-harm may be expected to show lower levels of improvement in mental health difficulties at follow up.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Predictors of child and adolescent mental health treatment outcome |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12888-022-03837-y |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03837-y |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Case-mix, Child and adolescent, Mental health, Treatment outcome |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146608 |
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