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Exploring latent clusters in pediatric OCD based on symptoms, severity, age, gender, and comorbidity
AbstractGiven diverse symptom expression and high rates of comorbid conditions, the present study explored underlying commonalities among OCD-affected children and adolescents to better conceptualize disorder presentation and associated features. Data from 830 OCD-affected participants presenting to OCD specialty centers was aggregated. Dependent mixture modeling was used to examine latent clusters based on their age- and gender adjusted symptom severity (as measured by the Children ’s Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale; CY-BOCS), symptom type (as measured by factor scores calculated from the CY-BOCS symptom checklist...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The efficacy of psychological prevention, and health promotion interventions targeting psychological health, wellbeing or resilience among forced migrant children and youth: a systematic review and meta-analysis
This study aimed to synthesize evidence regarding promotion interventions to increase wellbeing, resilience, and quality of life (primary outcomes), and prevention interventions to reduce internalizing and externalizing symptoms (secondary outcomes) in this population. The review protocol was registered  with PROSPERO (CRD42022329978). Medline, PsycINFO, and Web of Science were searched. Inclusion criteria were: ≥ 10 participants, sample ≤ 18 years of age, no parental participation, explicated forced migrant populations, implementation in non-clinical context, and validated measures. Fifteen studies (N interv...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Challenges in assessing the efficacy of suicide prevention and mental health education initiatives
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Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Is behavioural activation an effective treatment for depression in children and adolescents? An updated systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractBehavioural Activation (BA) —a brief therapy based on the scheduling of enjoyable, purposeful and rewarding activities—is an effective and cost-effective treatment for depression in adults that shows promise for children and adolescents. We provide an update on a previous systematic review of evidence on BA—delivered in- person, telephone, or online—for depression and comorbid anxiety in children and adolescents. We conducted systematic literature searches in 6 databases up to February 2024. We included all study designs evaluating BA with participants up to 18 years old with diagnosable depression, as es...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Running in the FAMILY: understanding and predicting the intergenerational transmission of mental illness
AbstractOver 50% of children with a parent with severe mental illness will develop mental illness by early adulthood. However, intergenerational transmission of risk for mental illness in one ’s children is insufficiently considered in clinical practice, nor is it sufficiently utilised into diagnostics and care for children of ill parents. This leads to delays in diagnosing young offspring and missed opportunities for protective actions and resilience strengthening. Prior twin, family, and adoption studies suggest that the aetiology of mental illness is governed by a complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Agreement between self-, mother and father proxy-reports on health-related quality of life in adolescents with Tourette syndrome
This study aimed to investigate agreement and discrepancies between parent proxy- and adolescent self-reports on assessments of adolescents ’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and the role that individual factors may play in parent-adolescent agreement, in a sample of adolescents with Tourette syndrome (TS) compared to a control group of healthy adolescents. Adolescents aged 12–18 years diagnosed with TS were recruited with t heir parents from primary and secondary referral centres. Adolescent healthy controls were matched for gender and age. Adolescents and each of their parents completed a set of questionnaire...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Antipsychotic prescribing: national findings of children and adolescents attending mental health services in Ireland
We described the frequency of antipsychotic medication, medication type, target condition, target symptom and medication doses. We used multivariable logistic regression, adjusted with available co-variates to assess the association of being presc ribed an antipsychotic medication. Twelve percentage (n = 437) were prescribed an antipsychotic and 16–17-years (n = 211, 48.3%) was the most common age category. The commonest reason for prescribing an antipsychotic was target symptoms (i.e., off-label use) (n = 329; 75.%) and of thes e symptoms, agitation (n = 77/329; 25%) and irritability (56/239; 25%) were t...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Trajectories of school refusal: sequence analysis using retrospective parent reports
AbstractSchool refusal (SR) is a form of school attendance problem (SAP) that requires specific mental health care. Despite improvements in the definition of SAPs, the course of SR is not well characterized. To explore three-year patterns of SR course in children, as reported by their parents, we deployed an anonymous web-based survey. We defined SR onset as the absence of  ≥ 2 school weeks during one academic year, combined with emotional distress. We defined standard SR trajectories using sequence analysis of parents’ recollection of three consecutive years of school attendance. We obtained 1970 responses, 1328 (...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Maternal asthma and asthma exacerbation during pregnancy and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring: a population-based cohort study
AbstractThe link between inflammatory disorders, such as asthma, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is attracting increasing attention but few studies have examined cross-generational associations. We sought to examine associations of maternal asthma and asthma exacerbation during pregnancy, as well as paternal asthma, with the risk of ADHD in children. This population-based cohort study used data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database from 2004 to 2017. Cox regression models compared the risk of ADHD in children of parents with and without asthma, adjusting for parental sociodemograph...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 10, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Unexpected mental health improvement in children and adolescents during COVID-19-who benefits from staying at home?
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Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Exploring genetic testing requests, genetic alterations and clinical associations in a cohort of children with autism spectrum disorder
AbstractSeveral studies show great heterogeneity in the type of genetic test requested and in the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with ASD. The following study aims, firstly, to explore the factors that might influence professionals ’ decisions about the appropriateness of requesting genetic testing for their patients with ASD and, secondly, to determine the prevalence of genetic alterations in a representative sample of children with a diagnosis of ASD. Methods: We studied the clinical factors associated with the request for genetic testing in a sample of 440 children with ASD and the clinical factors of...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Secular trends in risk factors for adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms: the Young-HUNT studies 1995 –2019, Norway
AbstractIn recent decades, increases in mental health problems in adolescents have been reported from several large population-based surveys. This raises questions about changes in underlying risk and protective factors that can inform future intervention strategies. Population data were collected from 1995 to 2019 in three waves of the Young-HUNT studies in Norway to map decennial trends in the prevalence of established risk factors for, and their associations with, adolescent mental health problems. All adolescents (aged 13 –19 years) attending lower and upper secondary school in the county of Trøndelag were invited,...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Child psychiatry cannot afford not to properly study differences by sex
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Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Tackle your Tics, a brief intensive group-based exposure treatment for young people with tics: results of a randomised controlled trial
AbstractTics can have a serious impact on the quality of life of children and their families. Behavioural therapy is an evidence-based first line treatment for tic disorders. This randomised controlled trial studied the efficacy of a brief, condensed group-based programme for children with tics (Dutch Trial Registry NL8052, 27 September 2019). Tackle your Tics is a four-day group treatment, including exposure and response prevention and supporting components, delivered by therapists and ‘experts by experience’. We collected outcome measures at baseline (T1), directly post-treatment (T2), and at three- and 6-months foll...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Emotional and relational problems of adolescents with and without a migrant background in Europe: a systematic review
AbstractMental health of migrant adolescents is a topic that has been widely studied in the past decades. Emotional and behavioural problems are amongst the most explored areas; however, little attention has been paid to the relational sphere, which represents another key aspect of mental health and is paramount during adolescence. This systematic review analysed the available evidence on emotional and relational problems comparing adolescents with and without a migrant background in Europe between 2010 and 2021. The search was conducted in four databases using a common search strategy composed of terms addressing adolesce...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research