Digital Application of Clinical Staging to Support Stratification in Youth Mental Health Services: Validity and Reliability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the demand for youth mental health care continues to rise, managing wait times and reducing treatment delays are key challenges to delivering timely and quality care. Clinical staging is a heuristic model for youth mental health that can stratify care allocation according to individuals' risk of illness progression. The application of staging has been traditionally limited to trained clinicians yet leveraging digital technologies to apply clinical staging could increase the scalability and usability of this model in services.

Objective

The aim of this study was to validate a digital algorithm to accurately differentiate young people at lower and higher risk of developing mental disorders.

Methods

We conducted a study with a cohort comprising 131 young pe

SUBMITTER: Chong MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10517388 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature