Personality Disorders, Psychosocial Impairment, Social Withdrawal of Childhood or Adolescence
Conditions
Keywords
acute adolescent psychiatric units
Brief summary
The study plan outlined here represents an investigation of instruments on the patients treated in the acute ward of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE). The psychosocial burden of the affected children and adolescents is evident due to the severity of the disorders leading to specific admission. The psychosocial burden can be defined as psychological, social, or school-occupational functional impairment \[...\] that has arisen as a consequence of a mental disorder, a specific developmental disorder, or an intellectual impairment. The current research project aims to survey the severity of psychosocial distress, personality functioning impairment, and social withdrawal. A better knowledge of these factors may contribute to a more suitable, specialized treatment offer on the acute ward in the medium term.
Detailed description
Children and adolescents who receive inpatient psychiatric treatment are counted among the most impaired in society. In addition to the usually very severe mental disorders, the patient:s often have psychosocial risk factors and traumatic life events in their history. As demand for psychiatric-psychotherapeutic care increases, many inpatient services have been driven to reduce costs, while parallel pressures to measure outcomes and effectiveness have increased. The call for evidence-based practice underscores the need to use valid and reliable measurement tools to capture changes in symptoms and functionality during short-term interventions and their effectiveness. Measuring this change allows for the evaluation of the interventions as a whole and identifying areas for improvement. Acute care units are a particular type of inpatient setting. The main goal of treatment is to stabilize the patient:s by reducing acute psychiatric symptoms, suicide risk, and danger to others. The challenge of care for this target group is to do justice to heterogeneous initial situations and offer customized help for each child and adolescent. The use of instruments to record psychosocial stress and personality disorders increases the chance that at least some of those affected can be prevented from developing a chronic course and thus long-term psychosocial impairment utilizing tailored interventions.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
12 Years to 17 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients treated in the acute ward of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf * Patients with a principal diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder (ICD-10-GM-2016: F10 - F90). * Patients under 18 years of age.
Exclusion criteria
* Patients with organic, including symptomatic mental disorders (F00 - F09) * Dementia / cognitive impairment (IQ \< 70) * lack of German language skills * severe visual or hearing impairment (uncorrected).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Psychosocial distress | 7 minutes | HoNOSCA-D (Dölitzsch et al., 2020; von Wyl et al., 2017) The Health of the Nation Outcomes Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) is a questionnaire assessing psychosocial distress in children and adolescents. The 13-item instrument is a viable tool for differentiating the severity and social functioning of those with mental illness and can be used as a meaningful outcome instrument. It parallels a clinician's external assessment with a self-assessment. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Level of personality functioning | 5 minutes | SEFP (Falkai & Wittchen, 2015b): The level of personality functioning is dimensionally classified in the alternative DSM-5-PS model using the Level of Personality Functioning Scale. Criterion A is based on a normative functioning model of personality, from which there can be defined deviations, divided into four degrees of severity, regarding identity, self-control, empathy, and closeness. The SEFP is determined by an assessment by a clinician. |
| Social withdrawal | 3 minutes | YSR/11-18 (Döpfner et al., 2014): Social withdrawal is measured with nine items from the Youth Self-Report 11-18 (YSR/11-18), the social withdrawal subscale. The YSR is a widely used 112-item self-report scale of emotional and behavioral problems developed for children and adolescents ages 11 to 18. Items can be rated on a 3-point scale, where 0=not at all; 1=sometimes or not at all; and 2=always or often true in the past 6 months. |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed