Educational level, attention problems, and externalizing behaviour in adolescence and early adulthood: the role of social causation and health-related selection —the TRAILS study
AbstractSocial causation and health-related selection may contribute to educational differences in adolescents ’ attention problems and externalizing behaviour. The social causation hypothesis posits that the social environment influences adolescents’ mental health. Conversely, the health-related selection hypothesis proposes that poor mental health predicts lower educational attainment. From past studie s it is unclear which of these mechanisms predominates, as attention problems and externalizing behaviour have the potential to interfere with educational attainment, but may also be affected by differences in the educ...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Adolescent depression beyond DSM definition: a network analysis
We examined the prevalence and relevance of DSM and non-DSM depressive symptoms in two Brazilian school-based adolescent samples with two commonly used scales, the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-A) and the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ). We analyzed cross-sectional data from two similarly recruited samples of adolescents aged 14 –16 years, as part of the Identifying Depression Early in Adolescence (IDEA) study in Brazil. We assessed dimensional depressive symptomatology using the PHQ-A in the first sample (n = 7720) and the MFQ in the second sample (n = 1070). We conducted network analyses to study sym...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Emotion regulation and tic disorders in children
AbstractTic disorders (TD) are developmental neuropsychiatric conditions often accompanied by comorbid conditions, and psychosocial hardships for child and family. The etiology of tics is unknown, and is complex and multifactorial. Stress is known to aggravate tic expression as well as associated comorbidities. Consequently, this study focused on possible connections between stress, emotion regulation, tic expression, and related psychopathology. Sixty consecutive admissions were assessed for perceived stress, emotional dysregulation, severity of obsessions and compulsions, anxiety, depression, attention deficit disorder, ...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Increase in depression and anxiety disorder diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic in children and adolescents followed in pediatric practices in Germany
This study shows an increase in the number of pediatric diagnoses of depression and anxiety disorders in the pandemic year 2020 compared to the previous year. (Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

An early intervention for adolescent depression targeting emotional mental images and memory specificity: a process evaluation
AbstractWe have evaluated a novel early intervention for adolescent depression (age 16 –18) in a feasibility randomised controlled trial. This nested process evaluation aimed to understand how this complex intervention worked. We sought to understand participants’ views and experiences of receiving and interacting with the intervention to evaluate whether the underpinning theoreti cal basis of the intervention is justified and whether it contributes to valued outcomes for participants. Twelve participants were invited to take part in semi-structured interviews. Framework analysis was employed to identify important aspe...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Multi-center nationwide study on pediatric psychiatric inpatients 2000 –2018: length of stay, recurrent hospitalization, functioning level, suicidality, violence and diagnostic profiles
AbstractInpatient treatment is an important part of child and adolescent psychiatric (CAP) care. This nationwide study explores the changes in length of stay, recurrent hospitalization, functioning level, suicidality, violence and diagnoses of CAP inpatients in Finland in 2000, 2011 and 2018. We obtained comprehensive questionnaire data on each study year from 93 to 95% of all CAP wards in Finland. We split the 1276 inpatients into two age groups in each study year: under 13 and 13 –18. The median length of stay in inpatient treatment decreased from 82.0 days in 2000 to 20.5 days in 2018 (p <  0.001) and recurre...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Associations of parental mental disorders and age with childhood mental disorders: a population-based cohort study with four million offspring
AbstractThis Taiwan study examined the associations of parental age and mental disorders with the offspring risks of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and bipolar disorder (BD). Children born between January 1991 and December 2004 in Taiwan were enrolled as the birth cohort (n = 4,138,151) and followed up until December 2011. A logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the odds ratio (OR). The advanced age effects were significant in ADHD (range of OR: 1.04 to 1.49) and ASD (range of OR: 1.35 to 2.27). Teenage mothers, teenage ...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Effects of suicide prevention videos developed by and targeting adolescents: a randomized controlled trial
AbstractSuicide prevention videos featuring young people ’s personal narratives of hope and recovery are increasingly used in suicide prevention, but research on their effects is scarce. A double-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted to test the effects of a suicide prevention video featuring an adolescent mastering his suicidal ideation by ge tting help on 14 to 19-year-olds.N = 299 adolescents were randomly allocated to watch the intervention video (n = 148) or a control video unrelated to mental health (n = 151). Questionnaire data were collected before (T1) and immediately after exposure (T2), a...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Childhood poverty and mental health disorders in early adulthood: evidence from a Brazilian cohort study
ConclusionsChildhood poverty had detrimental consequences on externalizing MHD in adolescence, especially among females. Poverty and SLE are preventable risk factors that need to be tackled to reduce the burden of externalizing disorders in young people. (Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Another day to die: stories from the silent pandemic
(Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Obituary for Alessandro Zuddas
(Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Short-term and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on child psychological well-being: a four-wave longitudinal study
AbstractAs the COVID-19 pandemic further unfolds, it becomes a key theoretical and practical question to identify trajectories of child psychological well-being and to explore risk and resilience factors for developmental adjustment. The current study addressed this research gap by means of an ecological design: A (lockdown) –B (relaxation)–B (relaxation)–A (lockdown). We collected parental reports via online questionnaires over four measurement occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany (non-probabilistic sample): from the first lockdown (T1—spring 2020,N = 1769) to the following period of relaxation (T...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Association of medication clusters and subsequent labor market marginalization in refugee and Swedish-born young adults with common mental disorders in Sweden
This study aimed to identify clusters of individuals with similar psychotropic medication patterns; and examine the relationship between cluster membership with labor market marginalization (LMM) in refugee and Swedish-born young adults with CMD. The study uses a longitudinal matched cohort aged 18-24  years with CMD diagnoses from Swedish registers covering 2006–2016. Dispensed psychotropic medications (antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, sedative-hypnotics, mood stabilizers) were collected one year before and after CMD diagnosis. Clusters of patients with similar time courses of pr escribed dosages were algo...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Delivering transgender-specific knowledge and skills into health and allied health studies and training: a systematic review
AbstractMany transgender individuals face inequities, discrimination, and sometimes even a lack of transgender-specific knowledge in health care settings. Educational curricula can address such disparities and help future health professionals to become more knowledgeable, confident, and well-prepared for addressing the needs of transgender individuals. This systematic review aims to summarize current training interventions about care of transgender individuals for health and allied health students, and to analyse the effects of the respective intervention. A total of six databases (Pubmed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, ...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Early risk factors for conduct problem trajectories from childhood to adolescence: the 2004 Pelotas (BRAZIL) Birth Cohort
AbstractConduct problems are associated with an increased risk of a wide range of physical, mental, and social problems. However, there is still uncertainty about how early risk factors differentiate different developmental patterns of conduct problems and whether findings replicate across diverse social contexts. We aimed to identify developmental trajectories of conduct problems, and test early risk factors, in the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort in Brazil. Conduct problems were measured at ages 4, 6, 11, and 15  years from caregiver reports on the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire ...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - April 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research