Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatients: Self-reported Parent-adolescent Communication Quality and Treatment Outcome
Recruiting · NCT06633458 · Observational (researchers observe without assigning treatment) · Lead sponsor: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
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The quality of parent-adolescent communication has been found to be associated with adolescent mental health. However, little is known about the association of parent-adolescent communication and adolescent mental health in the context of psychiatry inpatient treatment. This study aims to find out whether self-reported parent-adolescent communication quality at the time of admission to psychiatry predicts the treatment outcome in terms of symptom reduction 6 months later in an adolescent inpatient sample. It also aims to track changes in adolescent self-reported communication quality in the course of inpatient treatment and afterwards (2, 4 and 6 months after admission) to see whether improvement predicts treatment outcome, with treatment outcome being defined as symptom reduction to baseline. As a secondary endpoint, it will be assessed whether a placement of the adolescent outside the family was considered during treatment and whether self-reported communication quality at the time of admission predicts the consideration of placement outside the family.
Who can take part
Inclusion criteria
- Admission to inpatient care unit of the adolescent psychiatry at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
Exclusion criteria
- Severe symptom burden at admission
- Lack of knowledge of the German language.
Where it is running
2 locations listed.
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf - Hamburg, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf - Hamburg, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany