Youth at-risk for serious mental illness: methods of the PROCAN study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most mental disorders begin in adolescence; however, there are gaps in our understanding of youth mental health. Clinical and policy gaps arise from our current inability to predict, from amongst all youth who experience mild behavioural disturbances, who will go on to develop a mental illness, what that illness will be, and what can be done to change its course and prevent its worsening to a serious mental illness (SMI). There are also gaps in our understanding of how known risk factors set off neurobiological changes that may play a role in determining who will develop a SMI. Project goals are (i) to identify youth at different stages of risk of SMI so that intervention can begin as soon as possible and (ii) to understand the triggers of these mental illnesses.

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SUBMITTER: Addington J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6034268 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature