How well do children in the North East of England function after a crisis: a service evaluation

How well do children in the North East of England function after a crisis: a service evaluation

Emily Staite, Lynne Howey, Clare Anderson, Paula Maddison
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp.161-169

Data shows that there is an increasing number of young people in the UK needing access to mental health services, including crisis teams. This need has been exacerbated by the current global pandemic. There is mixed evidence for the effectiveness of crisis teams in improving adult functioning, and none, to the authors’ knowledge, that empirically examines the functioning of young people following intervention from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) crisis teams in the UK. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to use CAMHS Crisis Team data, from an NHS trust that supports 1.4 million people in the North East of England, to examine a young person's functioning following a crisis.
This service evaluation compared functioning, as measured by the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS), pre- and post-treatment for young people accessing the CAMHS Crisis Team between December 2018 and December 2019.
There were 109 participants included in the analysis. ORS scores were significantly higher at the end of treatment (t(108) = −4.2046, p < 0.001) with a small effect size (d = −0.36). Sixteen (15%) patients exhibited significant and reliable change (i.e. functioning improved). A further four (4%) patients exhibited no change...

Source: Mental Health Review Journal - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Emily Staite Lynne Howey Clare Anderson Paula Maddison Source Type: research