Screening parents of children with a chronic condition for mental health problems: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Parents of children with a chronic condition (CC) have a high prevalence of mental health (MH) difficulties. It is not known whether establishing screening programmes in paediatric clinics to identify parental MH difficulties increases detection or referrals to support services. We aimed to identify approaches to routine screening programmes for parents of children with a CC attending hospital outpatient clinics (aim 1); associated prevalence of MH symptoms (aim 2); and whether screening impacted referrals to, and uptake of, MH services (aim 3).

Design

Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and PubMed databases were searched between January 2000 and December 2023. Studies were selected if they conducted routine screening of MH of parents of children with CCs (aged <18 y

SUBMITTER: Coscini N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12418540 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature