Status:
COMPLETED
Quality of Life and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents
Lead Sponsor:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Collaborating Sponsors:
Norwegian Council for Mental Health
SINTEF Health Research
Conditions:
Psychiatric Diagnosis
Mental Disorders
Eligibility:
All Genders
8-16 years
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to investigate different aspects of Quality of Life and mental health in patients under treatment in a child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic and in the normal...
Detailed Description
Measuring and monitoring Quality of Life in children and youths continues to increase in importance to both researchers and decision makers. Only a limited number of well validated instruments that me...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All children 9-16 years of age, attending the 4th, 6th, 8th or 10th grades at public or private schools with at least 50 pupils, in the period from the 1st of September 2004 until 15th of July 2005 in the county of Sør-Trøndelag. Subjects and parents have to give their informed consent.
- All patients 8-10 years of age consecutively referred to to the child psychiatric outpatient clinic in the period from the 1st of June 2003 until 31st of December 2005, having a minimum of two direct contacts with the clinical staff. Patients and parents have to give their informed consent.
- Follow up: Three years after the patients met at the outpatient clinic for the first time.
Exclusion
- Pupils lacking sufficient competence in the Norwegian language, due to foreign background or having a mental developmental level of more than two grades under the respective grade.
- Patients with psychosis or serious mental retardation.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2003
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2008
Estimated Enrollment :
2342 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00159601
Start Date
June 1 2003
End Date
December 1 2008
Last Update
April 4 2017
Active Locations (1)
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NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway, NO-7489