Intensive outpatient interventions for youth with complex mental illness: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mental illness typically onsets during the developmental stages from adolescence to emerging adulthood (ages 15-24 years), referred to as 'youth'. A subset of youth with mental illness may be identified as having 'complex' mental health needs, defined based on requiring prolonged, extensive and resource-intensive services across multiple sectors, functional impairment, and comorbid challenges or multimorbidity . Effective early intervention for youth with complex mental illness is crucial to prevent the sequelae of long-term mental health problems. Several resource-intensive outpatient models have been developed to meet the needs of youth with complex mental illness; however, to the best of our knowledge, no scoping review has synthesised the available evidence on thes

SUBMITTER: Choudhary W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12516995 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature