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Youth Experiences and Health Study

ConditionsPsychotic DisordersPsychiatric HospitalizationProdromal SymptomsCannabis UseTrauma, Psychological
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age15-18
SponsorFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare

About this trial

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.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

None

Disqualifiers

None

Trial population

All patients in the adolescent health clinics in three hospital districts of Finland.

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Prospective

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Psychiatric questionnaires

    Diagnostic test

    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

    Diagnostic test

    Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia, version K-SADS-PL 2013.

Treatment groups

1,000 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group
Group A: Participants2 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

First psychosis disorder diagnosis

National health care register diagnosis of non-organic psychosis

Time frame
5 years from recruitment (baseline questionnaire assessment)

Secondary outcomes

1

Need for psychiatric care

National health care register outpatient visits

Time frame
5 years from recruitment (baseline questionnaire assessment)
2

Psychiatric hospitalization

National health care register record of hospitalization

Time frame
5 years from recruitment (baseline questionnaire assessment)

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Lead sponsor

Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa

Collaborator

Pirkanmaa Hospital District

Collaborator

Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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