NCT00448331

Facilitated Referral for Children Screening Positive for Mental Illness

Facilitated Referral for Children Screening Positive for Mental Illness in the Pediatric Emergency Department and Readiness to Seek Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 551 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to find out how prevalent unidentified Mental Health issues are in the pediatric population that visits the Emergency Department in an urban city.

Detailed description

The purpose of this research study is to find out how many children in the Emergency Room have emotional issues and how many of them go unnoticed. In particular the study looks at how well a questionnaire for children and teenagers, the DISC Predictive Scales, Version IV (DPS-IV) works and what is the best way to ask the questions. In addition, for children aged 9-17 this study will look at families' readiness to seek care when a problem is indicated.

Conditions

• Mental Disorders
• Mentally Ill Persons
• Emergency Medicine

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-06-01
• Completion: 2007-08-01
• First posted: 2007-03-16
• Last updated: 2007-11-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States