LevelMind@JC: Development and evaluation of a community early intervention program for young people in Hong Kong.

Autor: Hui CL; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Suen YN; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Lam BY; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Wong SM; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Wong CS; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Lui SS; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Chan KT; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Wong MT; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Chan SK; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.; State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Lee EH; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Chang WC; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.; State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Wong GH; Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong., Chen EY; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.; State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Early intervention in psychiatry [Early Interv Psychiatry] 2022 Aug; Vol. 16 (8), pp. 920-925. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 11.
DOI: 10.1111/eip.13261
Abstrakt: Aim: Hong Kong's existing mental health services are inadequate in addressing young people's needs. The LevelMind@JC project established an early intervention platform of community-based youth-specific mental health centres involving youth workers, cross-disciplinary professionals, and young people. The project intends to (1) pilot a community platform that incorporates a youth-friendly early screening tool with preventative intervention capabilities, (2) set up a state-of-the-art training system for youth mental health workers, (3) establish a community clinical support team and (4) develop a timely evaluation system to monitor the service and evaluate its outcome and cost-effectiveness against generic youth services.
Methods: Six hundred LevelMind@JC service users will be assessed alongside 600 young people visiting generic youth centres and 100 young people in the community. Participants will be matched according to age, gender, years of education, socioeconomic status, and level of distress. Assessments, administered at baseline and at 3, 6 and 12 months, will cover demographic characteristics, psychological distress, quality of life, depressive and anxiety symptoms, functioning, physical health and lifestyle, personality and social measures, cognitive measures and health economics. Mixed-model ANOVAs will be used to indicate interactions between services and between time points.
Conclusion: Built upon a community-based support model, LevelMind@JC aims to promote positive mental health in young people through the collaboration of cross-disciplinary mental health professionals. If efficacy and cost-effectiveness are established, the project could be scaled up, implicating a wider reach of care. We anticipate its success to be critical in combatting mental health issues stemming from both personal and population-level stressors.
(© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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