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Ciydem E, Avci D, Uyar M, Seyhan A. The relationship between basic psychological needs and emotional and behavioral problems in middle school students. JOURNAL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC NURSING 2023. [PMID: 36727582 DOI: 10.1111/jcap.12411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Basic psychological needs are universal sources of mental growth and development. PURPOSE This study investigated the relationship between basic psychological needs and emotional and behavioral problems in middle school students. METHODOLOGY This study adopted a cross-sectional and correlational research design. The sample consisted of 1099 students from three middle schools with different socioeconomic backgrounds. Data were collected using a sociodemographic characteristics questionnaire, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, and the Basic Psychological Needs Scale (BPNS). The data were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. RESULTS A one-unit increase in autonomy, competence, and relatedness led to a 0.312, 0.263, and 0.312 decrease in emotional and behavioral problems, respectively (p < 0.05). The regression analysis showed that gender (female), academic performance (poor), mother's parenting style (authoritarian), and father's parenting style (permissive) were the risk factors affecting participants' emotional and behavioral problems (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that some basic psychological needs and sociodemographic characteristics make middle school students more likely to develop emotional and behavioral problems. Authorities should develop interventions on basic psychological needs to promote emotional and behavioral development. Researchers should assess the effectiveness of those interventions.
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- Emre Ciydem
- Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bandırma Onyedi Eylul University, Balıkesir, Turkey
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- Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bandırma Onyedi Eylul University, Balıkesir, Turkey
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- Bandırma Guidance and Research Center, Guidance and Psychological Counseling, Balıkesir, Turkey
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- Bandırma Guidance and Research Center, Guidance and Psychological Counseling, Balıkesir, Turkey
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Wolf RT, Jeppesen P, Pedersen MMA, Puggaard LB, Thastum M, Bilenberg N, Thomsen PH, Silverman WK, Plessen KJ, Neumer SP, Correll CU, Pagsberg AK, Gyrd-Hansen D. Cost-effectiveness of a transdiagnostic psychotherapy program for youth with common mental health problems. BMC Health Serv Res 2022; 22:819. [PMID: 35739556 PMCID: PMC9229821 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-08187-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Our objective was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the transdiagnostic psychotherapy program Mind My Mind (MMM) for youth with common mental health problems using a cost-utility analysis (CUA) framework and data from a randomized controlled trial. Furthermore, we analyzed the impact of the choice of informant for both quality-of-life reporting and preference weights on the Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER). METHODS A total of 396 school-aged (6-16 years) youth took part in the 6-month trial carried out in Denmark. CUAs were carried out for the trial period and four one-year extrapolation scenarios. Costs were based on a combination of budget and self-reported costs. Youths and parents were asked to report on the youth's quality-of-life three times during the trial using the Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D). Parental-reported CHU9D was used in the base case together with preference weights of a youth population. Analyses using self-reported CHU9D and preference weights of an adult population were also carried out. RESULTS The analysis of the trial period resulted in an ICER of €170,465. The analyses of the one-year scenarios resulted in ICERs between €23,653 and €50,480. The ICER increased by 24% and 71% compared to the base case when using self-reported CHU9D and adult preference weights, respectively. CONCLUSION The MMM intervention has the potential to be cost-effective, but the ICER is dependent on the duration of the treatment effects. Results varied significantly with the choice of informant and the choice of preference weights indicating that both factors should be considered when assessing CUA involving youth.
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- Rasmus Trap Wolf
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Danish Centre for Health Economics, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Copenhagen University Hospital - Psychiatry Region Zealand, Smedegade 16, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for the Psychological Treatment of Children and Adolescents, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Health Services in the Region of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Research Center at the Department for Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program, Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Oslo, Norway
- The Arctic University of Norway, Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, North Norway (RKBU North), Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Centre for Health Economics, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Schuurmans IK, Tamayo Martinez N, Blok E, Hillegers MHJ, Ikram MA, Luik AI, Cecil CAM. Child mental health problems as a risk factor for academic underachievement: A multi-informant, population-based study. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2022; 145:578-590. [PMID: 35298839 PMCID: PMC9313785 DOI: 10.1111/acps.13426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate whether child mental health problems prospectively associate with IQ-achievement discrepancy (i.e., academic under- and over-achievement) in emerging adolescence. The secondary aims were to test whether these associations are specific to certain mental health problems, to assess potential sex differences, and to examine whether associations are robustly observed across multiple informants (i.e., maternal and teacher-reports). METHODS This study included 1,577 children from the population-based birth cohort the Generation R Study. Child mental health problems at age 6 were assessed by mothers and teachers using the Child Behavior Checklist and the Teacher's Report Form. The IQ-achievement discrepancy was quantified as the standardized residuals of academic achievement regressed on IQ, where IQ was measured with four tasks from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition around age 13 and academic attainment was measured with the Cito test, a national Dutch academic test, at the end of elementary school (12 years of age). RESULTS Mental health problems at age 6 were associated with IQ-achievement discrepancy at age 12, with more problems associating with greater academic underachievement. When examining specific mental health problems, we found that attention problems was the only mental health problem to independently associate with the IQ-achievement discrepancy (adjusted standardized difference per 1-standard deviation, mother: -0.11, p < 0.001, 95% CI [-0.16, -0.06]; teacher: -0.13, p < 0.001, 95% CI [-0.18, -0.08]). These associations remained after adjusting for co-occurring mental health problems. The overall pattern of associations was consistent across boys and girls and across informants. CONCLUSION Mental health problems during the transition from kindergarten to elementary school associate with academic underachievement at the end of elementary school. These associations were primarily driven by attention problems, as rated by both mothers and teachers-suggesting that strategies targeting attention problems may be a particularly promising avenue for improving educational performance irrespective of IQ, although this should be established more thoroughly through further research.
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- Isabel K. Schuurmans
- Department of EpidemiologyErasmus MC University Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands,The Generation R Study GroupErasmus MC University Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands
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- The Generation R Study GroupErasmus MC University Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/PsychologyErasmus MC–Sophia Children”s HospitalUniversity Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands
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- The Generation R Study GroupErasmus MC University Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/PsychologyErasmus MC–Sophia Children”s HospitalUniversity Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/PsychologyErasmus MC–Sophia Children”s HospitalUniversity Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of EpidemiologyErasmus MC University Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of EpidemiologyErasmus MC University Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/PsychologyErasmus MC–Sophia Children”s HospitalUniversity Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of EpidemiologyErasmus MC University Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/PsychologyErasmus MC–Sophia Children”s HospitalUniversity Medical Center RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands,Molecular EpidemiologyDepartment of Biomedical Data SciencesLeiden University Medical CenterLeidenThe Netherlands
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Wolf RT, Puggaard LB, Pedersen MMA, Pagsberg AK, Silverman WK, Correll CU, Plessen KJ, Neumer SP, Gyrd-Hansen D, Thastum M, Bilenberg N, Thomsen PH, Jeppesen P. Systematic identification and stratification of help-seeking school-aged youth with mental health problems: a novel approach to stage-based stepped-care. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2022; 31:781-793. [PMID: 33459884 PMCID: PMC9142415 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-021-01718-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We investigated whether a novel visitation model for school-aged youth with mental health problems based on a stage-based stepped-care approach facilitated a systematic identification and stratification process without problems with equity in access. The visitation model was developed within the context of evaluating a new transdiagnostic early treatment for youth with anxiety, depressive symptoms, and/or behavioural problems. The model aimed to identify youth with mental health problems requiring an intervention, and to stratify the youth into three groups with increasing severity of problems. This was accomplished using a two-phase stratification process involving a web-based assessment and a semi-structured psychopathological interview of the youth and parents. To assess problems with inequity in access, individual-level socioeconomic data were obtained from national registers with data on both the youth participating in the visitation and the background population. Altogether, 573 youth and their parents took part in the visitation process. Seventy-five (13%) youth had mental health problems below the intervention threshold, 396 (69%) were deemed eligible for the early treatment, and 52 (9%) had symptoms of severe mental health problems. Fifty (9%) youth were excluded for other reasons. Eighty percent of the 396 youth eligible for early treatment fulfilled criteria of a mental disorder. The severity of mental health problems highlights the urgent need for a systematic approach. Potential problems in reaching youth of less resourceful parents, and older youth were identified. These findings can help ensure that actions are taken to avoid equity problems in future mental health care implementations.
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- Rasmus Trap Wolf
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Danish Centre for Health Economics, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program, Yale Child Study Center, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine At Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
- Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY, USA
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, The Arctic University of Norway, North Norway (RKBU North), Tromsø, Norway
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- Danish Centre for Health Economics, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Centre for the Psychological Treatment of Children and Adolescents, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Health Services in the Region of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Research Center At Department for Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services - Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Ayar G, Yalçın SS, Tanıdır Artan Ö, Güneş HT, Çöp E. Strengths and difficulties in children with specific learning disabilities. Child Care Health Dev 2022; 48:55-67. [PMID: 34331711 DOI: 10.1111/cch.12903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2020] [Revised: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The study aims to investigate the social, emotional, and behavioral challenges in children with a specific learning disability (SLD) and to identify the factors that accompany these problems by screening with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). METHODS The descriptive study was conducted on 278 children with SLD. Strengths and difficulties in children were evaluated by the SDQ applied to their mothers. The percentage of cases above the cut-off limits of the SDQ was calculated. Chi-square test and multiple logistic regression analysis were used for analysis. RESULTS The mean (SD) total SDQ score was 15.8 (6.5). The percentage of scores of abnormal total difficulties in SLD was 47.8%. Multivariate analysis revealed that cases exposed to antenatal smoking had higher odds ratio of abnormal emotional symptoms and abnormal total difficulties; cases with poor familial income and the presence of a history of antenatal smoking exposure showed considerably higher odds ratio of conduct problems; cases with younger age at the diagnosis of SLD, dyscalculia, extreme duration of preschool screen time (≥4 h), and history of hospitalization had significantly higher odds ratio for hyperactivity-inattention problems; and cases having shorter breastfeeding duration had higher odds ratio of peer problems compared to counterparts. CONCLUSION Children with SLD have a high score on the SDQ. Practitioners could especially give guidance and support to families with financial problems and those having a child with an early age at diagnosis, exposure to antenatal smoking, short breastfeeding period, early age of the first screen use, and long screen exposure duration during the preschool period.
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- Ganime Ayar
- Department of Pediatrics, Ministry of Health, Ankara City Hospital, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Social Pediatrics and Unit of Child Development, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Pediatrics, Ministry of Health, Ankara City Hospital, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Pediatrics, Ministry of Health, Ankara City Hospital, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Child Psychiatry, Ministry of Health, Ankara City Hospital, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey
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Jeppesen P, Wolf RT, Nielsen SM, Christensen R, Plessen KJ, Bilenberg N, Thomsen PH, Thastum M, Neumer SP, Puggaard LB, Agner Pedersen MM, Pagsberg AK, Silverman WK, Correll CU. Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy Compared With Management as Usual for Youth With Common Mental Health Problems: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry 2021; 78:250-260. [PMID: 33355633 PMCID: PMC7758821 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.4045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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IMPORTANCE Behavioral therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) programs targeting a single class of problems have not been widely implemented. The population of youths with common mental health problems is markedly undertreated. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a new transdiagnostic CBT program (Mind My Mind [MMM]) compared with management as usual (MAU) in youths with emotional and behavioral problems below the threshold for referral to mental health care. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This pragmatic, multisite, randomized clinical trial of MMM vs MAU was conducted from September 7, 2017, to August 28, 2019, including 8 weeks of postintervention follow-up, in 4 municipalities in Denmark. Consecutive help-seeking youths were randomized (1:1) to the MMM or the MAU group. Main inclusion criteria were age 6 to 16 years and anxiety, depressive symptoms, and/or behavioral disturbances as a primary problem. Data were analyzed from August 12 to October 25, 2019. INTERVENTIONS The MMM intervention consisted of 9 to 13 weekly, individually adapted sessions of manualized CBT delivered by local psychologists. The MAU group received 2 care coordination visits to enhance usual care. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary outcome was change in mental health problems reported by parents at week 18, using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Impact scale (range, 0-10 points, with higher scores indicating greater severity of distress and impairment). Primary and secondary outcomes were assessed in the intention-to-treat population at week 18. Maintenance effects were assessed at week 26. RESULTS A total of 396 youths (mean [SD] age, 10.3 [2.4] years; 206 [52.0%] boys) were randomized to MMM (n = 197) or MAU (n = 199), with primary outcome data available in 177 (89.8%) and 167 (83.9%), respectively, at 18 weeks. The SDQ Impact score decreased by 2.34 points with MMM and 1.23 with MAU, from initial scores of 4.12 and 4.21, respectively (between-group difference, 1.10 [95% CI, 0.75-1.45]; P < .001; Cohen d = 0.60). Number of responders (≥1-point reduction in SDQ Impact score) was greater with MMM than with MAU (144 of 197 [73.1%] vs 93 of 199 [46.7%]; number needed to treat, 4 [95% CI, 3-6]). Secondary outcomes indicated statistically significant benefits in parent-reported changes of anxiety, depressive symptoms, daily functioning, school attendance, and the principal problem. All benefits were maintained at week 26 except for school attendance. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this randomized clinical trial, the scalable transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral intervention MMM outperformed MAU in a community setting on multiple, clinically relevant domains in youth with emotional and behavioral problems. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03535805.
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- Pia Jeppesen
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services–Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark,Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services–Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark,Danish Centre for Health Economics, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
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- Musculoskeletal Statistics Unit, Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,Research Unit of Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Musculoskeletal Statistics Unit, Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,Research Unit of Rheumatology, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services–Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark,Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mental Health Services in the Region of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark,Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Research Center at the Department for Child- and Adolescent Psychiatry, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark,Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Centre for the Psychological Treatment of Children and Adolescents, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Oslo, Norway,Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, The Arctic University of Norway, North Norway (RKBU North), Tromsø, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services–Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services–Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services–Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark,Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program, Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Department of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Hempstead, New York,Department of Psychiatry, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, New York,Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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Wolf RT, Ratcliffe J, Chen G, Jeppesen P. The longitudinal validity of proxy-reported CHU9D. Qual Life Res 2021; 30:1747-1756. [PMID: 33582966 PMCID: PMC8178153 DOI: 10.1007/s11136-021-02774-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Objectives The Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D) currently represents the only preference-based health-related quality-of-life instrument designed exclusively from its inception for application with children. The objective of this study was to examine the construct validity and responsiveness of the proxy-reported (parent) CHU9D in a mental health setting using utility weights derived from an adult and adolescent population, respectively. Methods The discriminant validity and convergent validity were examined using the mental health-specific ‘The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire’ (SDQ) and the generic KIDSCREEN-27. Responsiveness was assessed by examining the floor-ceiling effects, the magnitude of change over time, and the ability to differentiate between improvement and no improvement. Results The study included 396 children with mental health problems. CHU9D showed good construct validity, with correlation coefficients ranging between 0.329 and 0.571 for SDQ Impact score and KIDSCREEN-27 Psychological Well-being. CHU9D was able to distinguish between groups of children with different levels of mental health problems (p < 0.001). The absolute magnitudes of the group mean differences were larger using adolescent weights. No evidence of a floor/ceiling effect was found at the baseline. A standardized response mean of 0.634–0.654 was found for the children who experienced clinically significant improvements. CHU9D was able to discriminate between children who experienced positive and no health improvements (p < 0.001). Conclusion This study provides the first evidence on responsiveness for CHU9D in a mental health context. The findings demonstrate that CHU9D is an appropriate HRQOL measure for use in mental health trials. Furthermore, the results show that the preference weights generated from an adolescent population resulted in the larger mean differences between groups. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11136-021-02774-9.
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- Rasmus Trap Wolf
- Danish Centre for Health Economics, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. .,Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services-Capital Region of Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
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- College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia
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- Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services-Capital Region of Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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