“After CAMHS: adult psychiatric outcomes for young people who attended child and adolescent mental health services” by Dr Colm Healy, University College Dublin & University of Edinburgh.
Dr Healy is a senior post-doctoral researcher affiliated with University College Dublin and University of Edinburgh. His primary interests are in youth mental health, prediction and preventative psychiatry. He works as part Professor Ian Kelleher's research team examining outcomes of former CAMHS patients. This seminar will present the research carried out at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland where he works with Professor Mary Cannon.
This research evaluated adult psychiatric outcomes of individuals who have previously attended specialist child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP) services. This prospective cohort study used data linkage from Finland’s secondary health care registry for all individuals born between 1987-1992 (n = 373,487). By age 29 years, 52·4% (n = 21,183) of CAP patients had a diagnosis from specialist adult psychiatry services. The most prevalent diagnoses received in adult psychiatry services by former CAP patients were depressive episodes, non-phobic anxiety disorders, alcohol use disorders, personality disorders, and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Approximately half of all diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, recurrent depression, and personality disorders in the population occurred in individuals who had attended CAP services. Results demonstrate the poor long-term outcomes for CAP patients when followed to adulthood.
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