Research in child and adolescent anxiety and depression: treatment uncertainties prioritised by youth and professionals.

ABSTRACT: Background: A starting point for evaluating the effectiveness of treatments should be to identify evidence gaps. Furthermore, such evaluations should consider the perspectives of patients, clinicians and carers to ensure relevance and potentially influence future research initiatives. Methods: Our approach, inspired by the James Lind Alliance methods, involved three steps. First, we performed a document analysis by identifying interventions and outcomes in two recently published overviews of systematic reviews, which summarised the effects of interventions for anxiety and depression in children and adolescents. Second, we surveyed children and adolescents with personal experiences of depression or anxiety as well as clinicians, and asked them to suggest treatments and outcome

SUBMITTER: Axelsdottir B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9377379 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature