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Youth mental health in Ireland and Northern Ireland: an AcCESs Evidence Report
- Authors:
- ROCHFORD Sarah, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Effective Services
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 79
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
This evidence review focuses on the mental health of young people between the ages of 12 and 18 years. It looks at some of the more common mental health problems experienced by young people, the factors that influence youth mental health and what support young people can draw on if they have a mental health difficulty. It identifies a range of factors influencing mental health, including social and cultural influences, environmental and individual factors. It also includes key facts and figures on youth mental health in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Based on the findings, the review provides key messages about emerging trends in youth mental health in Ireland and Northern Ireland, highlights research findings on effective approaches, and lists a number of agencies and organisations providing specialist training and resources. The resource is aimed at front-line professionals who come into regular contact with young people and who want to have a greater understanding of what some of the risk factors are, to recognise the warning signs, and to determine what they can do to support young people. (Edited publisher abstract)
Economic costs and preference-based health-related quality of life outcomes associated with childhood psychiatric disorders
- Authors:
- PETROU Stavros, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 197(5), November 2010, pp.395-404.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This study estimated the costs and preference-based health-related quality of life outcomes associated with a range of childhood psychiatric disorders during the eleventh year of life. Participants included 190 extremely preterm children and 141 term-born controls, who undertook psychiatric assessment using the Development and Well Being Assessment and the Kaufman-Assessment Battery for Children. Questionnaires completed by parents and teachers described the children’s utilisation of health, social and education services at the age of eleven. Parents also described their child’s health status using the Health Utilities Index health status classification system. The paper presents detailed costs and health utilities associated with psychiatric disorders for the preterm population and term-born population. The authors suggest that the results of the study should be used to inform future economic evaluations of interventions aimed at preventing childhood psychiatric disorders or alleviating their effects.
Disrupted transitions? Young adults and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Authors:
- SMYTH Emer, NOLAN Anne
- Publisher:
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 90
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
This study seeks to fill a gap in knowledge about the extent of disruption caused by the pandemic to young adults at a crucial time of transition in their lives and the consequences of this disruption for their mental health. It draws on an online survey, which was completed by 2,277 young adults, 33 per cent of the total sample, most of whom were 22 years of age at the time. The report focuses on disruption to employment, education and social activities, and associations with mental health and wellbeing. Chapter 2 provides a more detailed overview of the relevant national and international literature on these issues. Chapter 3 presents the results for disruptions to employment, education and social activities while Chapter 4 presents the results for mental health and wellbeing. We conclude in Chapter 5 with a summary and discussion of the findings, along with a set of implications for policy. While rates of serious illness and mortality due to COVID-19 among young people have been low, the impact on their daily lives has been substantial. The analysis in this report documents the disruptions to employment, education and daily activities of this group, and assesses the implications for their mental health and wellbeing. The scale of the disruption, and impact on mental health and wellbeing, was extensive. In terms of mental health, the data show large and significant increases in depressive symptoms between the ages of 20 and 22, with over 55 per cent of females, and 41 per cent of males, exceeding the threshold for clinically significant depression at age 22. (Edited publisher abstract)
Housing choices discussion paper 1: what is the evidence for the cost or cost-effectiveness of housing and support options for people with care or support needs?
- Authors:
- HARFLETT Naomi, et al
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- Bath
A brief summary of evidence on the costs and cost-effectiveness of residential care and other housing and support options for older people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems. It draws on a review of peer reviewed and grey literature in the UK and Ireland from 2000 onwards. The paper highlights limitations in the available evidence, which include limitations in terms of quantity; quality; lack of reliability of unit costs used in the research, and difficulties of making comparisons across studies. It then provides a broad summary of the evidence that is available. The paper finds that limitations in quality and quantity mean that there is not sufficient, reliable evidence in which to inform housing and support decisions on the basis of cost. It concludes that there is therefore a strong argument that decisions about an individual’s housing and support should be based on other factors supported in current health and social care policy such as rights, inclusion, choice and control. (Edited publisher abstract)
Caring for mentally ill people in Europe
- Authors:
- VAN OS Jan, NEELEMAN Jan
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 5.11.94, 1994, pp.1218-1221.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Despite legislation to harmonise mental health practice throughout Europe and convergence in systems of training there remains an extraordinary diversity of psychiatric practice in Europe. Approaches to tackling substance misuse vary among nations; statistics on psychiatric morbidity are affected by different approaches to diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; attitudes towards mental illness show definite international differences. Everywhere, though, mental health care for patients with psychotic illness is a "cinderella service", and there is a general move towards care falling increasingly on the family and the community.