Jacobs Paula, Power Luke, Davidson Gavin, Devaney John, McCartan Claire, McCusker Pearse, Jenkins Ruth
Faculty of Social Sciences, Social Work, University of Stirling, Colin Bell Building, Stirling, UK.
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
J Child Adolesc Trauma. 2023 Sep 4;17(2):159-185. doi: 10.1007/s40653-023-00566-6. eCollection 2024 Jun.
One of the challenges for mental health research is the lack of an agreed set of outcome measures that are used routinely and consistently between disciplines and across studies in order to build a more robust evidence base for how to better understand young people's mental health and effectively address diverse needs.
This study involved a scoping review of reviews on consensus of the use of mental health and wellbeing measures with children and young people. We were particularly interested to identify if there are differences in measures that are recommended for children and young people with care experience including those with developmental disabilities.
We identified 41 reviews, of which two had a focus on child welfare settings, three on childhood trauma and 14 focused on children and young people with developmental disabilities. Overall, our review highlights a lack of consensus and a diversity of measures within the field. We identified 60 recommended measures, of which only nine were recommended by more than one review.
Our review highlights the need for greater agreement in the use of mental health outcome measures. While our review highlights that there is value in identifying measures that can be used with any child or young person, researchers need to take into account additional considerations when working with children and young people with care experience and those with developmental disabilities, to ensure measures are accessible and sensitive to their life experiences.
心理健康研究面临的挑战之一是缺乏一套公认的结果测量指标，这些指标在各学科之间以及各项研究中未能得到常规且一致的使用，以便为如何更好地理解青少年心理健康并有效满足其多样化需求建立更坚实的证据基础。
本研究对关于儿童和青少年心理健康与幸福测量指标共识的综述进行了范围界定审查。我们特别感兴趣的是，确定对于有照料经历的儿童和青少年（包括那些有发育障碍的儿童和青少年）所推荐的测量指标是否存在差异。
我们确定了41篇综述，其中两篇聚焦于儿童福利环境，三篇聚焦于儿童期创伤，14篇聚焦于有发育障碍的儿童和青少年。总体而言，我们的综述凸显了该领域缺乏共识且测量指标多样。我们确定了60项推荐的测量指标，其中只有9项被不止一篇综述推荐。
我们的综述强调了在使用心理健康结果测量指标方面需要达成更大程度的共识。虽然我们的综述强调识别可用于任何儿童或青少年的测量指标具有价值，但研究人员在与有照料经历的儿童和青少年以及有发育障碍的儿童和青少年合作时需要考虑其他因素，以确保测量指标对他们的生活经历具有可及性且敏感适用。
