A prospective cohort study of the changing mental health needs of adolescents in custody.

ABSTRACT: To investigate changes in mental health and other needs, as well as clinical and diagnostic 'caseness', in a sample of adolescents over a 6-month period following entry into a Young Offenders Institution in the UK. Prospective cohort study. One Young Offenders Institution between November 2006 and August 2009. 219 male adolescents aged 15-18 years (M=16.56; SD=0.6) were assessed at baseline (median=4; range 0-26 days following reception into custody) on the Salford Needs Assessment Schedule for Adolescents (SNASA) and Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS). Participants were then reassessed at 3-month and 6-month postbaseline to document any change in mental health. Of the initial baseline sample, 132 were still in the study at 3-month postbaseline and 63 were s

SUBMITTER: Lennox C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3612741 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature