@article{ref1,
title="Predictors of child and adolescent mental health treatment outcome",
journal="BMC psychiatry",
year="2022",
author="Edbrooke-Childs, Julian and Rashid, Anisatu and Ritchie, Benjamin and Deighton, Jessica",
volume="22",
number="1",
pages="e229-e229",
abstract="BACKGROUND: To examine the predictors of treatment outcome or improvement in mental health difficulties for young people accessing child and adolescent mental health services. <br><br>METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of routinely collected data from services in England using the Mental Health Services Data Set. We conducted multilevel regressions on N = 5907 episodes from 14 services (M(age) = 13.76 years, SD(age) = 2.45, range = 8-25 years; 3540 or 59.93% female) with complete information on mental health difficulties at baseline. We conduct similar analyses on N = 1805 episodes from 10 services (M(age) = 13.59 years, SD(age) = 2.33, range = 8-24 years; 1120 or 62.05% female) also with complete information on mental health difficulties at follow up. <br><br>RESULTS: Girls had higher levels of mental health difficulties at baseline than boys (β = 0.28, 95% CI = 0.24-0.32). Young people with higher levels of mental health difficulties at baseline also had higher levels of deterioration in mental health difficulties at follow up (β = 0.72, 95% CI = 0.67-0.76), and girls had higher levels of deterioration in mental health difficulties at follow up than boys (β = 0.09, 95% CI = 0.03-0.16). Young people with social anxiety, panic disorder, low mood, or self-harm had higher levels of mental health difficulties at baseline and of deterioration in mental health difficulties at follow up compared to young people without these presenting problems. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Services seeing higher proportions of young people with higher levels of mental health difficulties at baseline, social anxiety, panic disorder, low mood, or self-harm may be expected to show lower levels of improvement in mental health difficulties at follow up.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1471-244X",
doi="10.1186/s12888-022-03837-y",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03837-y"
}