Raúl Jiménez Boraita, Esther Gargallo Ibort, Josep María Dalmau Torres, Daniel Arriscado Alsina
{"title":"Lifestyle habits, health indicators and sociodemographic factors associated with health-related quality of life and self-esteem in adolescents.","authors":"Raúl Jiménez Boraita, Esther Gargallo Ibort, Josep María Dalmau Torres, Daniel Arriscado Alsina","doi":"10.1177/13591045231200661","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231200661","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mental health is defined as a state of emotional, psychological, and social well-being, and has been shown to be positively associated with self-esteem and quality of life. It is important to note that mental health is dynamic and influenced by a wide range of social, biological, and behavioral factors. Therefore, the aim this study was to describe the health-related quality of life and self-esteem in adolescents, examining their relationship with various health indicators, lifestyle habits, and sociodemographic variables.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A cross-sectional study was conducted with a representative sample of 761 students (14.51 ± 1.63 years). Health-related quality of life, self-esteem, satisfaction with body image, adherence to the Mediterranean diet, physical activity practice, hours of nightly sleep, maximum oxygen consumption, body mass index, academic performance, and various sociodemographic factors of all participants were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Regression analysis showed that body satisfaction and academic performance were associated of both health-related quality of life and self-esteem. Additionally, physical activity, age, and favourable settings for physical activity engagement were also found to be related to health-related quality of life, whilst adherence to the Mediterranean diet, hours of nightly sleep, maximum oxygen consumption and socioeconomic status were associated with self-esteem.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Given the associations found between health-related quality of life and self-esteem with lifestyle habits and sociodemographic indicators, there is an urgent need to develop interdisciplinary and cross-cutting promotion strategies to improve the mental health of adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"493-512"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10141300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complex posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescence: A two-year follow-up study.","authors":"Evaldas Kazlauskas, Agniete Kairyte, Paulina Zelviene","doi":"10.1177/13591045231187975","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231187975","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Complex posttraumatic stress disorder is a new diagnosis in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). There is a need for a better understanding of complex PTSD in children and adolescents.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study aimed to estimate the factors associated with chronic complex PTSD versus recovery of complex PTSD in adolescents in a 2-year follow-up study.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In total, 66 adolescents, mean age 14.5, 73% female, identified as having complex PTSD using self-report at baseline recruited from a general population sample, were included in the study. The International Trauma Questionnaire - Child and Adolescent Version (ITQ-CA) was used for the assessment of complex PTSD.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, 36% of the study sample has been identified as having chronic complex PTSD over 2 years, 10% met the criteria for PTSD at a 2-year follow-up, and 54% recovered. A higher risk for chronic complex PTSD was associated with exposure to more traumatic events and more life-stressors over the 2 years, low social network, low positive social support, bullying at school, and loneliness.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study found that around one-third of the traumatized youth had a prolonged trajectory of complex PTSD symptoms, which were associated with negative life experiences and social difficulties.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"466-478"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10945978/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9748468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura E Laumann, Jerin Lee, Jaime Elizabeth Blackmon, Meaghan L Delcourt, Matthew C Sullivan, Stacy E Cruess, Dean G Cruess
{"title":"Depression and anxiety as mediators of the relationship between sleep disturbance and somatic symptoms among adolescents on a psychiatric inpatient unit.","authors":"Laura E Laumann, Jerin Lee, Jaime Elizabeth Blackmon, Meaghan L Delcourt, Matthew C Sullivan, Stacy E Cruess, Dean G Cruess","doi":"10.1177/13591045231198365","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231198365","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background:</b> This study investigated the relationship between sleep disturbance and somatic symptoms among adolescents residing on a psychiatric inpatient unit. Given the evidence that sleep disturbance may precede the onset of depression and anxiety and the clear associations between mood and somatic symptoms, depression and anxiety were considered as potential mediators of this relationship. Gender was tested as a potential moderator of the relationship between sleep disturbance and depression and anxiety, respectively. <b>Method:</b> A convenience sample of 83 adolescents completed a packet of self-report measures after admission to the unit. Measures assessed depression, sleep disturbance, anxiety, and somatic symptoms. Mediation and moderation analyses were conducted using SPSS PROCESS macro. <b>Results:</b> With anxiety included as a covariate, the overall indirect effect of sleep disturbance on somatic symptoms through depression was significant. No significant moderation effects were found, although females reported significantly higher levels of sleep disturbance, depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms than males. <b>Conclusions:</b> Results indicated that depression mediated the relationship between sleep disturbance and somatic symptoms above and beyond the effects of anxiety. These findings suggest that interventions aimed at reducing the negative effects of sleep disturbance should also target mood in this population. Individual differences including gender should be considered when developing interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"513-525"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10162548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iselin Solerød Dibaj, Anita Johanna Tørmoen, Ole Klungsøyr, Egil Haga, Lars Mehlum
{"title":"Trajectories and Predictors of Change in Emotion Dysregulation and Deliberate Self-Harm Amongst Adolescents with Borderline Features.","authors":"Iselin Solerød Dibaj, Anita Johanna Tørmoen, Ole Klungsøyr, Egil Haga, Lars Mehlum","doi":"10.1177/13591045231177374","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231177374","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Deliberate self-harm (DSH) and emotion dysregulation (ED) peaks in adolescence, and is associated with an increased risk of psychopathology, suicide and lower functioning in adulthood. DBT-A has been established as an effective treatment for reducing DSH, however less is known about changes in emotion dysregulation. This study aimed to identify baseline predictors of treatment response in outcome trajectories of DSH and emotion dysregulation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Response trajectories of DSH and ED were investigated using Latent Class Analysis on RCT data comparing DBT-A and EUC for 77 adolescents treated for deliberate self-harm and borderline traits. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine baseline predictors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two-class solutions were selected for both indicators, distinguishing between early and late responders in DSH, and responders and non-responders in ED. Higher levels of depression, shorter DSH histories and not receiving DBT-A predicted less favourable response in DSH, while DBT-A was the only predictor of treatment response in ED.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>DBT-A was associated with a significantly faster reduction of deliberate self-harm in the short-term and improved emotion regulation in the long-term.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"407-423"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10945983/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9515263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parenting stress, coping strategies and social support for mothers of preschool children with autism spectrum disorder in the Republic of Croatia.","authors":"Matea Zovko, Sanja Šimleša, Marina Olujić Tomazin","doi":"10.1177/13591045231191802","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231191802","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) report experiencing more parenting stress than parents of children with typical development or other developmental disorders. Eighty mothers of preschool children with ASD completed questionnaires with the purpose of exploring the extent and characteristics of parenting stress and the possibility of predicting parenting stress based on the mother's coping strategies, perceived social and professional support, the severity of the child's symptoms, and certain sociodemographic characteristics. The results show that 19% of the mothers had clinically significant parental stress. Most of the mothers experienced increased stress levels related to the following: poor interactions with their children (34%), the child's demandingness (27%), and their personal ability to cope with parental distress (20%). The predictors significantly explained 42.8% of the variance in total parental stress, with support from friends and severity of the child's symptoms being significant unique contributors.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"674-686"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9870124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cécile Rousseau, Diana Miconi, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Christian Desmarais, Ghayda Hassan
{"title":"Children of extremist parents: Insights from a specialized clinical team.","authors":"Cécile Rousseau, Diana Miconi, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Christian Desmarais, Ghayda Hassan","doi":"10.1177/13591045231192340","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231192340","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Data on children who grow up with parents adhering to violent extremism is scant. This makes it extremely delicate to inform policies and clinical services to protect such children from potential physical and psychological harm.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This paper explores the predicament of children whose caretakers were referred to a specialized clinical team in Montreal (Canada) because of concerns about risks or actual involvement in violent extremism processes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This paper uses a mixed methods concurrent triangulation design. Quantitative data was obtained through a file review (2016-2020). Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews and a focus group with the team practitioners.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Clinicians reported the presence of stereotypes in the health and social services network frequently representing religious extremist parents as potentially dangerous or having inappropriate parenting skills while minimizing the perception of risk for parents adhering to political extremism. Children displayed high levels of psychological distress, mainly related to family separation, parental psychopathology, and conflicts of loyalty stemming from familial or social alienation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Training practitioners to be aware of their own personal and institutional bias may help them to understand the predicament of extremist parents' children and implement systemic, trauma and attachment informed interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"687-699"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10945975/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9940379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to \"Applying an established exposure response prevention protocol for young people with tourette syndrome in an intensive, group format: A feasibility study\".","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/13591045231182299","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231182299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"764"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9602174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roger C Gibson, Gillian Lowe, Garth Lipps, Mia A Jules, Kelly Romero-Acosta, Avril Daley
{"title":"Somatic and Depressive Symptoms Among Children From Latin America and the English-Speaking Caribbean.","authors":"Roger C Gibson, Gillian Lowe, Garth Lipps, Mia A Jules, Kelly Romero-Acosta, Avril Daley","doi":"10.1177/13591045231178890","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231178890","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The extent to which depression is associated with somatic complaints in children from the English-speaking Caribbean and Latin America is not well established.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We sought to explore the association between depressive and somatic symptoms among children from the English-speaking Caribbean and Latin America, while accounting for age, sex, socioeconomic status, cultural background, and anxiety score.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>1541 elementary school children, ages 9-12 years, from the English-speaking Caribbean and Latin America completed the Adolescent Depression Rating Scale (ARDS), the Numeric 0-10 Anxiety Self-Report Scale and the Children's Somatic Symptom Inventory-24 (CSSI-24). T-tests and ANOVA's were used to compare CSSI-24 and ARDS scores among countries, and the CSSI-24 scores of children with (ARDS ≥ 4) and without likely clinically significant depression. Regression analyses assessed possible predictors of CSSI-24 score.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Depressive and somatic symptom scores were highest among the Jamaican children and lowest among the Colombian children (<i>p</i> < .001). Children with likely clinically significant depression exhibited higher mean somatic symptom scores (<i>p</i> < .001). Depressive symptom scores predicted somatic symptom scores (<i>p</i> < .001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Depressive symptoms were a strong predictor of reporting somatic symptoms. Knowledge of this association may facilitate better recognition of depression among youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"439-452"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9893261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Congenital cleft lip and palate and elevated risks of major psychiatric disorders: A nationwide longitudinal study.","authors":"Hsiang-Hsuan Huang, Ju-Wei Hsu, Kai-Lin Huang, Tung-Ping Su, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Shih-Jen Tsai, Mu-Hong Chen","doi":"10.1177/13591045231200665","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231200665","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Congenital cleft lip and palate (CCLP) may be associated with major psychiatric disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>From the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, 1,158 children and adolescents with CCLP and 11,580 age/sex-matched controls without CCLP were included in this study between 2001 and 2010; they were followed up until the end of 2011 to identify the aforementioned major psychiatric disorders.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After adjustment for age, sex, income, residence, and family history, the Cox regression model revealed a positive relationship of CCLP with subsequent schizophrenia (hazard ratio [HR]: 7.60, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.03-28.54), ASD (HR: 6.03, 95% CI: 1.76-20.61), and ADHD (HR: 7.33, 95% CI: 5.01-10.73).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings suggest that clinicians should be attentive to the presence or emergence of mental health conditions in patients with CCLP. Further studies are necessary to investigate the pathogenesis between CCLP and major psychiatric disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"637-647"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10185644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amy Gajaria, Andrea Greenblatt, Matthew Prebeg, Jacqueline Relihan, Peter Szatmari, Darren B Courtney
{"title":"Talking 'Bout Better outcomes for Adolescent Depression: Youth and Caregiver Perspectives on an Integrated Care Pathway for Depression.","authors":"Amy Gajaria, Andrea Greenblatt, Matthew Prebeg, Jacqueline Relihan, Peter Szatmari, Darren B Courtney","doi":"10.1177/13591045231184916","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13591045231184916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Depression is a common condition among adolescents, with rates continuing to rise. A gap exists between evidence-based recommendations for the treatment of depression and clinical practice. Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) can help address this gap, but to date no study has examined how young people and their caregivers experience ICPs and whether these pathways are an acceptable form of care. This study used focus groups with adolescents, caregivers, and service providers to examine experiences of an ICP.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Six individual interviews with service providers, four focus groups with youth, and two focus groups with caregivers were completed. Data was analyzed consistent with Braun & Clarke's Thematic Analysis Framework within an interpretivist paradigm.</p><p><strong>Results and conclusion: </strong>The study demonstrated that ICPs are acceptable to youth and their caregivers and that ICPs facilitate shared decision making between youth/caregivers and care providers. Findings also indicated that youth are willing to engage with ICPs particularly when there is a trusted clinician involved who helps interpret and tailor the ICP to the young person's experience. Further questions include how to best integrate these into the overall system and how to further tailor these pathways to support youth with diagnostic complexity and treatment resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48840,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"453-465"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10099582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}