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Is irritability multidimensional: Psychometrics of The Irritability and Dysregulation of Emotion Scale (TIDES-13)
AbstractIrritability is a common, impairing, and potentially multifaceted manifestation of psychopathology. We designed The Irritability and Dysregulation of Emotion Scale (TIDES-13) to determine whether various expressions of irritability in children and youth form multiple subdimensions with distinct correlates. We administered parent-report (n = 3875, mean age = 8.9) and youth self-report (n = 579, mean age = 15.1) versions of TIDES-13 in a population and community-based sample. We conducted exploratory/confirmatory factor analyses and regression analyses to examine the dimensionality of TIDES-13 and the associa...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Cognitive and affective perspective taking amongst adolescent offenders with variants of callous –unemotional traits
This study examined associations between adolescent antisocial behaviour and individual differences in cognitive and affective perspective taking ability. Ba sed on current theory regarding distinct variants of CU traits, we further tested whether the correlates of CU traits differed amongst youth with high versus low levels of anxiety. Participants were 130 male adolescents (81 youth offenders; 49 non-offenders) aged 13–20 years, of predominantly Cau casian and Aboriginal Australian ethnicity. Perspective taking skills were indexed using performance-based testing, and self-report data was collected on CU traits and an...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 10, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Risk-taking and self-harm behaviors as markers of adolescent borderline personality disorder
AbstractAdolescence is a critical period for early identification and intervention of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Risk-taking and self-harm behaviors (RSB) have been identified as promising early markers of BPD and correlates of depression in school-based samples. The present study aimed, first, to examine the association between RSB and BPD in a clinical sample of adolescents and, second, to examine whether RSB are also linked to depression. N  = 405 participants (82.7% female) were recruited from an outpatient clinic for adolescents with RSB. RSB assessed included truancy, excessive media use, alcohol, tob...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Impulsivity in adolescent girls diagnosed with trichotillomania: an evaluation of clinical and neuropsychological characteristics
AbstractThe aim of this study is to compare the clinical and neuropsychological features of impulsivity in adolescent girls with trichotillomania (TTM) and healthy controls, and to assess the relationships between the severity of TTM and the impulsivity/concomitant symptoms of anxiety and depression. The study sample consisted of 43 adolescent girls who were 12 to 18  years old. The Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version DSM-5 (K-SADS-PL) was administered to the adolescents and their parents. All of the participants completed a sociodemographic data f...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Association of difficulties in motor skills with longitudinal changes in social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder: findings from the ELENA French Cohort
This study aims to examine the association of difficulties in motor skills with longitudinal changes in social skills in children with ASD. Participants were drawn from the ELENA cohort, a French longitudinal cohort of children with ASD. Motor skills were assessed using the Movement Assessment Battery for Children at baseline, while social skills were measured using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) and the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS-II) at both the baseline and a follow-up assessment conducted 3  years later. A composite score of social skills was created at baseline and at both time points...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Association between maltreatment, hair cortisol concentration, positive parent –child interaction, and psychosocial outcomes in Chinese preschool children
This study aims to investigate whether positive parent –child interactions moderate the association between maltreatment (as a severe form of ELS) and hair cortisol concentration (HCC), as well as between HCC and psychosocial outcomes in young children. Participants were 6-year-old Chinese children (N = 257,Mage = 6.2, 121 were male) selected by stratified cluster random sampling from a Shanghai population representative cohort. Proximal 3 cm hair strands were analyzed using liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry for HCC. Children’s psychosocial outcome was evaluated using the p arental re...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Comparison of antipsychotic drug use in children and adolescents in the Netherlands before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study aims to describe the patterns and trends in antipsychotic prescription among Dutch youth before and during the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (between 2017 and 2022). The study specifically aims to determine whether there has been an increase or decrease in antipsychotic prescription among this population, and whether there are any differences in prescription patterns among different age and sex groups. The study utilized the IADB database, which is a pharmacy prescription database containing dispensing data from approximately 120 community pharmacies in the Netherlands, to analyze the monthly pre...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Cool and hot executive function problems in young children: linking self-regulation processes to emerging clinical symptoms
This study highlights how the assessment of cognitive processes positioned within the RDoC framework can inform our understanding of disorder-specific and trans diagnostic difficulties in SR which are associated with diverse clinical symptoms in children. (Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 6, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on prescription stimulant use among children and youth: a population-based study
AbstractCOVID-19 associated public health measures and school closures exacerbated symptoms in some children and youth with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Less well understood is how the pandemic influenced patterns of prescription stimulant use. We conducted a population-based study of stimulant dispensing to children and youth  ≤ 24 years old between January 1, 2013, and June 30, 2022. We used structural break analyses to identify the pandemic month(s) when changes in the dispensing of stimulants occurred. We used interrupted time series models to quantify changes in dispensing following the stru...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Factorial structure of the Internet Gaming Disorder questionnaire in the Italian setting: a single-factored ailment or a multifaceted condition?
ConclusionsIGD is a complex clinical condition that can be thought both as a single-factored and  as a multi-faceted condition. (Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Core features of callous –unemotional traits: a cross-cultural comparison of youth in four countries
This study aimed to examine whether cultural differences are reflected in the core features of CU traits and the associations among these features. Network analysis was employed to i dentify the core features and to examine the network structure of CU traits operationalized by the Inventory of Callous Unemotional traits (ICU) in four community youth samples from different nations (Australia,N = 190; the UK,N = 437; the USA,N = 330; China,N = 503). The item “Apologizes to people” was identified as a cross-cultural core feature in the ICU network with a greater centrality of this item compared to others i...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Children and young people ’s reported contact with professional services for mental health concerns: a secondary data analysis
This study aims to explore the professional services that parents of children, and young people get help from when they have a concern for the child’s/their mental health. Secondary analysis of data is taken from Mental Health of Children and Young People in England Survey, 2017. 7608 reports of mental health-related contact with professional services from parents of 5–16 year-olds and self-reports from young pe ople aged 17–19 were available. Service contact was reported by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) diagnosis, age, gender and ethnicity. Less than two-thirds of children and young ...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Body mass index, internalizing behavior and executive function: examining trait-state effects from age 2 to 15
This study aimed to examine the reciprocal relation between body mass index and internalizing behavior from age 2 to 15, and also the predictive role of executive function. This study included a subset sample of 640 children (47% were male) from the National Institute of Child Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. A refined random-intercept cross-lagged model was employed to analyze: (1) the reciprocal relation between children ’s body mass index and internalizing behavior assessed in eight waves from age 2 to 15; (2) the predictive role of executive functioning in both children’s body...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms in Spanish adolescents: results from the EHDLA study
AbstractDepression and anxiety are prevalent and disabling conditions among adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) and depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms in adolescents. This cross-sectional study included a sample of 698 adolescent students from a region of Spain (mean age of 13.9  ± 1.5 years; 56.2% girls). Adherence to the MD was evaluated with the Mediterranean Diet Quality Index in children and adolescents (KIDMED). Mental health symptoms were measured with the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). Logistic regression m...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

COVID-19 pandemic impact on adolescent mental health: a reassessment accounting for development
AbstractCurrent prospective reports suggest a pandemic-related increase in adolescent mental health problems. We examine whether age-related change over 11 –14 years accounts for this increase. Mothers and adolescents in a UK-based birth cohort (Wirral Child Health and Development Study; WCHADS;N = 737) reported on adolescent depression and behavioural problems pre-pandemic (December 2019–March 2020), mid-pandemic (June 2020–March 2021) and late pandemic (July 2021–March 2022). Analysis used repeated measures models for over-dispersed Poisson counts with an adolescent-specific int ercept with age as a time-var...
Source: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - January 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research