Facilitating implementation of an evidence-based method to assess the mental health of 3-5-year-old children at Child Health Clinics: A mixed-methods process evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A number of instruments for identifying mental health problems in children are available, but there is limited knowledge about how to successfully implement their use in routine practice. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is an instrument with sound psychometric properties. Because using multi-informant SDQs when assessing young children has been emphasized, parent- and preschool teacher reports on the SDQ were introduced at Child Health Clinics in a Swedish municipality. This paper aimed to describe a facilitation programme developed to support the introduction of SDQ in clinical practice and evaluate how nurses perceived the facilitation strategies used. Moreover, the dose (delivery) and reach (response rate and population coverage) of the questionnair

SUBMITTER: Falt E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7286525 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature