Family Life and Relationships in the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA)

Aims and MethodThe Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) were developed as a routine measure of outcomes in child and adolescent psychiatry. In a preliminary study we administered sub-scale 12 of HoNOSCA (Family Life and Relationships) to 20 families and compared the results with two well-established measures of family functioning and a measure of abnormal psychosocial situations associated with psychopathology.ResultsStrong correlations were found between HoNOSCA sub-scale 12 and both self-assessed and clinician-assessed measures of family functioning. However, there was little relationship between HoNOSCA (12) and a measure of abnormal psychosocial situations.Clinical ImplicationsHoNOSCA (12) appears to provide a quick and valid assessment of overall family dysfunction and can be used in a time-efficient manner as a means to assess where further more comprehensive family assessment or family therapy may be required.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Systematic review of family functioning in families of children and adolescents with chronic pain.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.11032956.11980054 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Rona Levy

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Chronic Pain ◽

Family Functioning ◽

Children And Adolescents

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Correlates of childhood trauma in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder spectrum: A preliminary study

Journal of Affective Disorders ◽

10.1016/j.jad.2018.12.007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 247 ◽

pp. 114-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Fadwa Cazala ◽

Isabelle E. Bauer ◽

Thomas D. Meyer ◽

Danielle E. Spiker ◽

Iram F. Kazimi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Bipolar Disorder ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Childhood Trauma ◽

Preliminary Study

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“Our Family’s Path:” Couples’ Perspectives on the Developmental Trajectories of Families in Urban Southern Angola

Journal of Black Psychology ◽

10.1177/00957984211037981 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 009579842110379

Author(s):

Tchilissila Alicerces Simões ◽

Isabel Marques Alberto

Keyword(s):

Family Functioning ◽

Life Events ◽

Family Life ◽

Developmental Trajectories ◽

Religious Commitment ◽

Empty Nest ◽

Family Development ◽

Chronological Order ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The Family

The aim of the present study was to explore and to understand how 36 urban Southern Angolan couples perceived their family’s development across the lifetime. The study sought to compare those results with three systemic approaches of family development, two Western and another indigenous. Through semi-structured interviews, the existence of two trajectories of family life, with similar life events, were identified. The life events of these two trajectories were organized in a different chronological order, based on the religious commitment of the individuals. The results showed discrepancies with the Western models on the composition of the household (i.e., big backyard families and families with a third element) as well as the type of events considered to be important milestones within the family trajectory (e.g., the inexistence of the empty nest). This study provides support for the indigenous framework proposed by Simões and Alberto (2015) and contributes to a better comprehension of the family functioning of the urban Southern Angolan families.

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Die Erfassung des allgemeinen familiären Funktionsniveaus: Psychometrische Evaluation der deutschen Version der Brief Assessment of Family Functioning Scale

PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie ◽

10.1055/a-1692-8763 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Carsten Spitzer ◽

Laura Lübke ◽

Philipp Göbel ◽

Sascha Müller ◽

Diana Krogmann ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Family Functioning ◽

Family Assessment ◽

Family Assessment Device ◽

Brief Assessment ◽

General Functioning

ZusammenfassungDie Funktionalität des Systems Familie spielt nicht nur in der Entwicklungspsychologie und Familienforschung, sondern auch bei vielen körperlichen Erkrankungen und psychischen Störungen eine zentrale Rolle. Trotz dieser hohen Relevanz existieren nur sehr wenige ultra-kurze, d. h. anwendungsökonomische Selbstbeurteilungsverfahren, die das allgemeine familiäre Funktionsniveau abbilden. Diese Lücke schließt die Brief Assessment of Family Functioning Scale (BAFFS), die aus drei Items der General Functioning Scale des international weit verbreiteten Family Assessment Device besteht. In dieser Studie wurde die deutsche Version der BAFFS erstmals an einer großen und repräsentativen Allgemeinbevölkerungsstichprobe (n=2463) psychometrisch evaluiert. Mittels Multigruppen-konfirmatorischen Faktorenanalysen konnte starke Messinvarianz für relevante Teilstichproben (Frauen vs. Männer; Probanden in Partnerschaften mit vs. ohne Kinder) bei guter Modellpassung gezeigt werden. Obwohl eines der drei Items, welches als einziges negativ formuliert ist, ungenügende psychometrische Itemkennwerte aufwies, lag die interne Konsistenz bei Cronbachs α=0,71. Als Hinweis auf eine adäquate Konstruktvalidität fanden sich hypothesenkonform Assoziationen des familiären Funktionsniveaus mit dem sozioökonomischen Status sowie mit aktueller Depressivität und Ängstlichkeit. Trotz ausstehender Anwendungserfahrungen und psychometrischer Analysen der Kurzskala Allgemeines Familiäres Funktionsniveau (KSAFF) als der deutschen Version der BAFFS in relevanten Zielgruppen und bei Patienten in Klinik und Forschung, kann das mit drei Items sehr anwendungsökonomische Verfahren zur orientierenden Erfassung des allgemeinen familiären Funktionsniveaus empfohlen werden, zumal es in der Allgemeinbevölkerung mit einigen Einschränkungen akzeptable bis gute psychometrische Kennwerte zeigte.

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Endothelin-1 Serum Concentration is Lower in Children and Adolescents with High Myopia, a Preliminary Study

Journal of Clinical Medicine ◽

10.3390/jcm9051327 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 1327

Author(s):

Katarzyna Powierza ◽

Beata Żelazowska-Rutkowska ◽

Jolanta Sawicka-Powierza ◽

Bożena Mikołuć ◽

Beata Urban ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Children And Adolescents ◽

Axial Length ◽

High Myopia ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽

Serum Concentrations ◽

Myopia Progression ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Weak Negative Correlation ◽

Preliminary Study

The aim of this study is to evaluate the levels of enothelin-1 (ET-1) in children and adolescents with high myopia and its association with the axial length of the eye and the presence of myopic retinal degeneration. The cross-sectional study was carried out in 57 patients with high myopia and 29 control subjects. Serum concentrations of ET-1 were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit. A significantly lower concentration of ET-1 in highly myopic patients compared to controls was found (1.47 (0.91; 1.87) vs. 1.94 (1.1; 2.69) pg/mL, p = 0.005). In patients with high myopia, a weak negative correlation between ET-1 concentration and the longest axial length out of the two eyes was found (r = −0.255, p = 0.0558). Further analysis revealed statistically significant differences in ET-1 concentration between patients with the axial length of the eye > 26 and ≤ 26 mm (p < 0.041) and patients with the axial length of the eye > 26 mm and controls (p < 0.001). ET-1 expression is disturbed in highly myopic children and adolescents. Lower ET-1 concentration in patients with the axial length of the eye > 26 mm may co-occur with high myopia and should be considered a risk factor in the pathophysiology of high myopia progression.

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Home-based outsourced informal work by children and adolescents impacts sleep and leisure—a preliminary study

Environmental Science and Pollution Research ◽

10.1007/s11356-020-09551-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (26) ◽

pp. 32754-32761

Author(s):

Elizeu Chiodi Pereira ◽

Ana Paula Sacone da Silva Ferreira ◽

Ana Paula Sayuri Sato ◽

Frida Marina Fischer ◽

Kelly Polido Kaneshiro Olympio

Keyword(s):

Children And Adolescents ◽

Informal Work ◽

Home Based ◽

Preliminary Study

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Comorbidity in Juvenile Obsessive—Compulsive Disorder: A Report from India

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/070674370004500307 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 274-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

YC Janardhan Reddy ◽

P Srinivas Reddy ◽

S Srinath ◽

S Khanna ◽

SP Sheshadri ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Bipolar Disorder ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽

Tic Disorders ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Interview Schedule ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Disruptive Disorders

Objective: Using minimal exclusion criteria, to assess systematically the psychiatric comorbidity in children and adolescents with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and compare the findings with those of previous studies. Method: Fifty-four children and adolescents who satisfied DSM-III-R criteria for OCD were assessed using a structured interview schedule, the Children's version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS), and the questionnaire for tic disorders. All 54 subjects were recruited from the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) services of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, South India. Diagnoses were determined consensually after a review of all the available data. Results: Comorbidity was found in 69% of the sample: 22% were diagnosed with disruptive disorders; 20% met criteria for mood disorders; 19% had anxiety disorders; and 17% had tic disorders. Only 1 subject had bipolar disorder, and none had psychosis. The rates for individual diagnoses—in particular, the rates for disruptive disorders, bipolar disorder, and psychosis—were considerably lower than those reported in previous studies. Conclusions: Patterns of comorbidity in this study differed from those previously reported. Novel patterns of comorbidity with disruptive disorders, bipolar disorder, and psychosis reported in a few recent studies were not replicated in this study. These differences are probably due to different ascertainment methods. Comorbidity needs to be assessed in large epidemiological samples before definite associations can be made between certain comorbid disorders and juvenile OCD.

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Sertraline, and Their Combination for Children and Adolescents with OCD

10.1093/med/9780190625085.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Falisha Gilman ◽

Zheala Qayyum

Keyword(s):

Children And Adolescents ◽

Behavioral Treatment ◽

Child And Adolescent Psychiatry ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Treatment ◽

Obsessive Compulsive ◽

Compulsive Disorder ◽

Clinically Significant ◽

Study Intervention ◽

Landmark Study

This chapter provides a summary of a landmark study in child and adolescent psychiatry. Is sertraline, cognitive behavioral treatment, or their combination more effective in the initial treatment of children and adolescents with clinically significant obsessive-compulsive disorder? Starting with that question, it describes the basics of the study, including funding, study location, who was studied, how many patients, study design, study intervention, follow-up, endpoints, results, and criticism and limitations. The chapter briefly reviews other relevant studies and information, discusses implications, and concludes with a relevant clinical case.

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