Assessing the impact of mental health difficulties on young people's daily lives: protocol for a scoping umbrella review of measurement instruments.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

An important consideration for determining the severity of mental health symptoms is their impact on youth's daily lives. Those wishing to assess 'life impact' face several challenges: First, various measurement instruments are available, including of global functioning, health-related quality of life and well-being. Existing reviews have tended to focus on one of these domains; consequently, a comprehensive overview is lacking. Second, the extent to which such instruments truly capture distinct concepts is unclear. Third, many available scales conflate symptoms and their impact, thus undermining much needed analyses of associations between the two.

Methods and analysis

A scoping umbrella review will examine existing reviews of life impact measures for use with

SUBMITTER: Krause KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058788 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature