Factors influencing the outcome of children attending Croydon CAMHS
- Conditions
- Topic: Mental Health Research Network, Generic Health Relevance and Cross Cutting ThemesSubtopic: All Diagnoses, Generic Health Relevance (all Subtopics)Disease: Not Applicable, PaediatricsMental and Behavioural DisordersChild and adolescent mental health
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN42914685
- Lead Sponsor
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 300
1. Subsequent referrals accepted to the waiting list of two district tier 2 - 3 CAMHS services
2. Aged between 5 - 10 years and 9 months over 2 years and 2 months
1. Younger than five or older than 10 years and 9 months at the time of they are accepted onto the waiting list
2. Child is looked after by their local authority, because of the difficulty of parental responsibility changing during the course of the study and because of the difficulty in finding informants that know the child well enough
3. The parent has insufficient English to complete the questionnaires
4. Emergency and paediatric liaison referrals because of the difficulty in gaining consent and completing the base line assessment between referral and first assessment
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method SDQ total difficulties and impact scores, according to parents at six monthly intervals.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. CGAS scores at 6 monthly intervals<br>2. Parental rating of whether coming to the clinic has changed the child's difficulties according to the follow up SDQ at six monthly intervals<br>2. The SDQ added value, as produced by the computer algorithm