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Youth Experiences and Health Study
Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Summary
This study aims to identify unusual experiences and psychiatric symptoms that indicate a heightened risk for severe mental disorders - especially psychoses. It is important to develop reliable questionnaire methods that are cost-effective in first-stage screening, leading to in-depth assessments and targeted care. However, existing psychosis-risk questionnaires are limited in content, intended for adults, and have been insufficiently tested for actual predictive value. Therefore we will collect a new, large dataset from an unselected group of adolescents entering psychiatric care in three major urban areas of Finland. Comprehensive national health care registers will be used to assess how well the selected experiences and symptoms predict the participants' mental health over the following few years.
Official title: Youth Experiences and Health (YEAH) Study - Psychological Symptoms and Resources As Predictors of Mental Health Among Treatment-seeking Adolescents
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
15 Years - 18 Years
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1000
Start Date
2019-12-01
Completion Date
2024-12-31
Last Updated
2024-09-25
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Psychiatric questionnaires
Participants will fill in the following questionnaires as part of routine intake assessments: Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7); Mini-Social Phobia Inventory; Beck Depression Inventory 21A; Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; Insomnia Severity Index; Youth Experiences and Health Questionnaire; Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (abbr.); Adolescent Peer Relations Instrument (APRI-B + cyberbullying, abbr.); Adolescent Trauma and Dissociation Scale (abbr.); Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test; Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test - Lite (extended); Nicotine Questionnaire incl. Heavy Smoking Index; Internet Addiction Test (abbr.); European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs 2015 Social Media Use and Computer Gaming; McMaster Family Assessment Device - General Functioning positive items; Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support; Brief Resilience Scale; The Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale
Semi-structured psychiatric interview
Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, version K-SADS-PL 2013.
Locations (3)
HUS Helsinki University Hospital, adolescent psychiatry clinics
Helsinki, Finland
Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District, Adolescent Mental Health Clinic
Oulu, Finland
Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Tays Central Hospital, Adolescent psychiatry clinic
Tampere, Finland