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Circulating retinol and 25(OH)D contents and their association with symptoms in children with chronic tic disorders
AbstractThe present study measured serum levels of vitamin A (VA) and vitamin D (VD) in children with chronic tic disorders (CTD) and investigated their potential association with CTD and comorbidity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the association of their co-insufficiencies or deficiencies with CTD symptoms. A total of 176 children (131 boys and 45 girls, median age of 9 years) with CTD were recruited as the CTD group. During the same period, 154 healthy children were selected as the healthy control (HC) cohort. Circulating retinol and 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) levels were measured for all par...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Differential outcomes of outpatient only versus combined inpatient/outpatient treatment in early intervention for adolescent borderline personality disorder
AbstractClinical guidelines for adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) recommend outpatient psychotherapy as first-line treatment. Little is known whether this recommendation is also applicable to adolescents. The current study examined the relationship between treatment setting and the outcome of early intervention for adolescents with BPD pathology. One-hundred and seventy-eight adolescents from a specialized outpatient clinic were assessed at baseline, and at 1- and 2-year follow-up. Sixty-three participants who received inpatient treatment during the first year were assigned to the “combined inpatient/outp...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

An examination of episodic future thinking in the emergency department among youth experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviors
This study examined a clinically relevant, understudied aspect of psychological functioning among youth experiencing STBs in the emergency department: episodic future thinking, or the ability to imagine d iscrete autobiographical future events. A sample of 167 youths (10–17 years) presenting to a pediatric psychiatric emergency department for STBs completed a performance-based measure of episodic future thinking assessing richness in detail and subjective characteristics of imagined future events . STB recurrence was assessed 6 months later. Immediately following a suicide-related crisis, youth demonstrated mixed abil...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Psychological distress and related factors among caregivers of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study recruited 252 caregivers of children with ADHD to participate and complete a questionnaire collecting their psyc hological distress in the COVID-19 pandemic, demographics, difficulties in managing children’s protective behaviors against COVID-19, learning and daily performance, and parenting styles as well as children’s conflict with elders and siblings, and the ADHD and ODD symptoms. Hierarchical regressi on models were constructed to examine the factors related to psychological distress among caregivers. Factors across caregiver, child, and child–family interaction dimensions, including children’s conf...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Towards dysfunctional connectome development in depressed adolescents
(Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Stratification of adolescents across mental phenomena emphasizes the importance of transdiagnostic distress: a replication in two general population cohorts
AbstractCharacterizing patterns of mental phenomena in epidemiological studies of adolescents can provide insight into the latent organization of psychiatric disorders. This avoids the biases of chronicity and selection inherent in clinical samples, guides models of shared aetiology within psychiatric disorders and informs the development and implementation of interventions. We applied Gaussian mixture modelling to measures of mental phenomena from two general population cohorts: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC,n = 3018) and the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN,n = 2023). We defi...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

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