a 12-month follow-up study among 12-14-year-old Finnish boys and girls

Authors :: Rissanen, Anne
Lindberg, Nina
Marttunen, Mauri
Sintonen, Harri
Roine, Risto
University of Helsinki, Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research
University of Helsinki, Department of Psychiatry
University of Helsinki, Public Health
University of Helsinki, Dep. of Neurosciences (Institute fo Clinical Medicine) (-2009)
Publication Year :: 2019
Abstract: BackgroundLittle is known about adolescents' perceptions about their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the course of routine adolescent psychiatric treatment. The aim of this 1-year follow-up study was to investigate HRQoL and changes in it among youths receiving adolescent psychiatric outpatient treatment.MethodsThe study comprised 158 girls and 82 boys aged 12-14years from 10 psychiatric outpatient clinics in one Finnish hospital district. Same-aged population controls (210 girls and 162 boys) were randomly collected from comprehensive schools. HRQoL was measured using the 16D instrument. The questionnaire was self-administered when the adolescents entered the polyclinics (=baseline), after a treatment period of 6months, and after 12months.ResultsThe mean age of respondents was 13.8years (SD 0.63). At baseline, the mean HRQoL score of both female and male outpatients was significantly lower than that of population controls (p