Child Psychiatric Epidemiology: Concepts, Methods, and Findings

Verhulst, Frank C.; Koot, H.M.

doi:10.4135/9781483325804

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“…This is remarkable, since low SES has been mentioned as a risk factor for psychopathology in children [50]. Apparently, SES does not affect QoL beyond its effect on psychopathology.…”

Section: Family/social Network Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Determinants of quality of life in children with psychiatric disorders

2005

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Objective: To assess factors that, in addition to childhood psychopathology, are associated with Quality of Life (QoL) in children with psychiatric problems. Methods: In a referred sample of 252 8 to 18-year-olds, information concerning QoL, psychopathology and a broad range of child, parent, and family/ social network factors was obtained from children, parents, teachers and clinicians. Results: Poor child, parent, and clinician reported QoL was associated with child psychopathology, but given the presence of psychopathology, also with child factors, such as low self-esteem, and poor social skills, and family/social network factors, such as poor family functioning, and poor social support. In multiple linear regression analyses the importance of parent factors, such as parenting stress, was almost negligible. Conclusion: To increase QoL of children with psychiatric problems, treatment of symptoms is important, but outcome might improve if treatment is also focussed on other factors that may affect QoL. Results are discussed in relation to current treatment programs.

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“…This is remarkable, since low SES has been mentioned as a risk factor for psychopathology in children [50]. Apparently, SES does not affect QoL beyond its effect on psychopathology.…”

Section: Family/social Network Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Determinants of quality of life in children with psychiatric disorders

2005

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“…The model proposed by Verhulst and Koot [44] provides us with a useful framework in this respect. Following Goldberg and Huxley [21,22], the help-seeking process for child and adolescent psychopathology is described as consisting of five levels, each separated by a filter.…”

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Help seeking for emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents

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Verhaak

Bensing

et al. 2003

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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s Abstract In order to understand the discrepancy between rates of child and adolescent psychopathology and rates of mental health service use, variables influencing the help-seeking process need to be investigated. The present article aims to extend and refine previous findings by reviewing 47 recent empirical studies on parental and adolescent problem recognition and help seeking, and problem recognition by the general practitioner (GP). Several variables (child age, the presence of medical and school-related problems, informal help seeking, past treatment of parents or relatives, family size, and type of maltreatment) were discovered to influence parental/adolescent problem recognition and/or help seeking, while refinements were found for the effects of type of psychopathology, child gender, adolescent attitudes and personality, parental psychopathology, social support, and sociodemographic variables. Although recent studies uncovered several determinants of problem recognition by the GP (child gender, age, past treatment, academic problems, family composition, life events, type of visit, and acquaintance with child), this aspect of the help-seeking pathway remains relatively uncharted and, therefore, needs to be the focus of future research.s Key words help seeking -child and adolescent psychopathologyproblem recognition -mental health services

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“…The first concerns the validity of structured interview guides. These instruments have been recently developed and may not be fully validated when applied, as evidenced by the successive revisions of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) since its original design in 1984 by Costello and others (27). For instance, a large percentage of children aged 11 to 17 years (26%) found the DISC-Revised Version (DISC-R) questions hard to understand (33).…”

Section: Validity and Innocuousness Ofstructured Interview Guidesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, they reduce the error variance associated with administration (27). Also, lay interviewers make it possible to query larger samples at lower cost (31).…”

Section: Interview Guidesmentioning

confidence: 99%