Mental Health in Austrian Teenagers (MHAT)

Completed

• Conditions: Mental Disorders
• Interventions: Other: 2-phase epidemiological study (screening, interviews)

• Registration Number: NCT03301077
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Vienna

Brief Summary

The purpose of the Mental Health in Austrian Teenagers (MHAT) - Study is to collect the first epidemiological data on mental health and psychiatric disorders in a representative sample of Austrian adolescents between 10 and 18 years.

Detailed Description

Knowing about the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and related risk and protective factors is essential for the development of prevention programs and therapeutic approaches. Up to now, no epidemiological data on prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders and related risk and protective factors based on a representative sample is available for Austrian adolescents.

The aim of the study is to present rates of behavioral, emotional and social problems as well as prevalence rates of mental disorders. Furthermore the investigators want to examine risk factors, protective factors and quality of life in a large sample of adolescents aged 10 to 18 years. A two step design is chosen for this purpose to obtain diagnoses based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Version 5 (DSM-5):

1. Phase 1 (screening) is a screening for emotional, behavioral and social problems as well as social and demographic correlates, risk and protective factors and quality of life.

2. Phase 2 (interviews) includes structured diagnostic interviews to assess psychiatric diagnoses according to DSM-5 criteria with adolescents above a predefined cut-off score in the screening, and a random sample of adolescents scoring below the cut-off.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-01
• Study First Submitted: 2014-07-21
• Primary Completion: 2015-04
• Study Completion: 2015-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-09-28
• Study First Posted: 2017-10-04
• Status Verified: 2019-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-03-05
• Last Update Posted: 2019-03-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 4000

Inclusion Criteria

• adolescents aged 10-18

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Exclusion Criteria

• no written informed consent possible due to intelligence or no willingness by parents to include minor

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
General population	2-phase epidemiological study (screening, interviews)	recruited from schools and other institutions like job-centers or child and adolescent psychiatries

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
psychiatric problems (diagnoses based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Version 5 (DSM-5)	12 months	Screening and interview

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
rates of behavioral, emotional and social problems (representation of data collected at interview)	12 months	YSR (Youth Self Report) questionnaire
psychiatric disorder related risks and protective factors (representation of data collected at interviews)	12 months	Kinder-DIPS (Diagnostisches Interview psychischer Störungen) interview
quality of life (total score, self-perception, parent relation & home life, social support & peers, school environment and bullying)	12 months	KIDSCREEN (Kidscreen) questionnaire

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Medical University of Vienna, Dep. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria