Evaluation of a screening algorithm using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to identify children with mental health problems: A five-year register-based follow-up on school performance and healthcare use
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Rasmus Trap Wolf aff001; Pia Jeppesen aff002; Dorte Gyrd-Hansen aff001; aff004; Anne Sophie Oxholm aff001
Působiště autorů:
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Public Health, Danish Centre for Health Economics, Odense, Denmark
aff001; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
aff002; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
aff003; Centre for Clinical Research and Prevention, Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
aff004
Vyšlo v časopise:
PLoS ONE 14(10)
Kategorie:
Research Article
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223314
Souhrn
Background
Treatment of mental health problems (MHP) is often delayed or absent due to the lack of systematic detection and early intervention. This study evaluates the potential of a new screening algorithm to identify children with MHP.
Methods
The study population comprises 2,015 children from the Copenhagen Child Cohort 2000 whose mental health was assessed at age 11–12 years and who had no prior use of specialised mental health services. A new algorithm based on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is utilised to identify MHP by combining parent-reported scores of emotional and behavioural problems and functional impairments. The screening is done on historical data, implying that neither parents, teachers nor health care professionals received any feedback on the screening status. The screening status and results of an IQ-test were linked to individual-level data from national registries. These national registers include records of each child’s school performance at the end of compulsory schooling, their health care utilisation, as well as their parents’ socio-economic status and health care utilisation.
Results
10% of the children screen positive for MHP. The children with MHP achieve a significantly lower Grade Point Average on their exams, independently of their IQ-score, perinatal factors and parental characteristics. On average, the children with MHP also carry higher health care costs over a five-year follow-up period. The higher health care costs are only attributed to 23% of these children, while the remaining children with MHP also show poorer school performance but receive no additional health care.
Conclusions
The results demonstrate that children with MHP and a poor prognosis can be identified by the use of the brief standardised questionnaire SDQ combined with a screening algorithm.
Klíčová slova:
Schools – Children – Mental health and psychiatry – Health screening – Human performance – Child psychiatry – Health care utilization – Health care sector
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