Quality of Life and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

2342 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2003-06-30

Study Completion Date

2008-12-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to investigate different aspects of Quality of Life and mental health in patients under treatment in a child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic and in the normal population.

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Detailed Description

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Measuring and monitoring Quality of Life in children and youths continues to increase in importance to both researchers and decision makers. Only a limited number of well validated instruments that measure Quality of Life in children exists, and in Norway only few has been translated into Norwegian. Up to date there are no studies investigating the quality of Life in Norwegian child and adolescent psychiatric patients in a longitudinal perspective, compared to the normal population.

Two generic Quality of Life instruments (KINDL, Bullinger \& Ravens-Sieberer 2000 and the ILC, Matejatt \& Remschmidt 1998) are introduced in Norway by this study in addition to the use of other well established measures like the "Child behaviour Check List" (Achenbach et al. 2001), etc.

Comparisons: 400 patients and their parents in a child psychiatric outpatient clinic 2000 pupils from the normal population in the middle of Norway Repeated measures after 6 months in both groups. In addition a follow up study for the clinical group 3 years after referral started in june 2006.

Conditions

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Psychiatric Diagnosis Mental Disorders

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_CONTROL

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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outpatients in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

No interventions assigned to this group

youth from general population

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All children 9-16 years of age, attending the 4th, 6th, 8th or 10th grades at public or private schools with at least 50 pupils, in the period from the 1st of September 2004 until 15th of July 2005 in the county of Sør-Trøndelag. Subjects and parents have to give their informed consent.
* All patients 8-10 years of age consecutively referred to to the child psychiatric outpatient clinic in the period from the 1st of June 2003 until 31st of December 2005, having a minimum of two direct contacts with the clinical staff. Patients and parents have to give their informed consent.
* Follow up: Three years after the patients met at the outpatient clinic for the first time.

Exclusion Criteria

* Pupils lacking sufficient competence in the Norwegian language, due to foreign background or having a mental developmental level of more than two grades under the respective grade.
* Patients with psychosis or serious mental retardation.

Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

16 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No