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Does the use of health care and special school services, prior to admission for psychiatric inpatient treatment, differ between adolescents housed by child welfare services and those living with their biological parent(s)?
- Authors:
- LAUKKANEN Matti, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 49(5), 2013, pp.528-539.
- Publisher:
- Springer
The researchers examined whether the use of health care and special school services, prior to admission for psychiatric inpatient treatment, differed between adolescents from child welfare units and those living at their parental home. 208 boys and 300 girls aged 12–17 years were admitted for psychiatric hospital between 2001 and 2006. Child welfare adolescents had used more health services/treatments prior to psychiatric hospital admission than adolescents living with their biological family. The best discriminating factors between study groups for both genders, were previous psychiatric hospitalisations, unemployed parents, use of special school services and self-perceived serious anxiety/tension or trouble controlling violent behaviour. Repeated school grades and previous use of psychotropic medications were discriminating factors only in girls. Adolescents in child welfare deserve adequate mental health evaluations at an early stage, with referral to appropriate adolescent psychiatric services if required. Appropriate service provision and properly planned treatments may reduce the amount of intensive and sometimes unnecessary psychiatric inpatient treatments. (Publisher abstract)
Are worries, satisfaction with oneself and outlook in secondary school students associated with mental health in early adulthood?
- Authors:
- KINNUNEN Pirjo, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 12(2), May 2010, pp.4-10.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The aim of this study was to identify factors in adolescence which are associated with mental health problems in early adulthood. In the long term study, data on worries, satisfaction with oneself and future outlook were collected from 235 14 year old adolescents (116 girls, 119 boys) in 1996 using a structured questionnaire. Subjects were part of a larger project carried out in two Finnish secondary schools in Eastern Finland. Mental health data were collected via a postal questionnaire from the same subjects as the age of 24 years using the SCL-90 instrument. The questionnaire was returned by 149 young adults (63.4%), 88 females and 61 males. Mental health problems were common in early adulthood; 42% of females and 22.9% of males exceeded the clinical cut-off of 0.9 for symptoms in at least two dimensions of the SCL-90. Adolescents’ worries about family finances and conflicts at home were associated with mental health problems in later life in both genders. Worries about achievement at school and parental unemployment in females, and lack of friends and busy parents in males, were associated with mental health problems at the age of 24. The authors conclude that adolescents’ perceptions of their worries, satisfaction with oneself and outlook are important factors to consider in attempts to promote mental health.
Bullying at school: an indicator of adolescents at risk for mental disorder
- Authors:
- KALTIALA-HEINO Rittakerttu, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 23(6), December 2000, pp.661-674.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
Presents the findings of a Finish study which aimed to evaluate whether involvement in bullying as bully, victim or bully-victim is associated with mental health problems in adolescence. Depressive symptoms, anxiety, psychosomatic symptoms, excessive drinking, alcohol and eating disorders, were showed. Possible differences in disorder profile according to involvement in bullying in different roles were also examined.