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Kirsty
Phillips
kirsty.phillips.14@ucl.ac.uk
Dr
Lee
Hudson
l.hudson@ucl.ac.uk
Adriana
Vazquez
adriana.vazquez.15@ucl.ac.uk
Unspecified mental disorder
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Some children and young people (CYP) become so unwell because of their mental health that they need an admission to hospital. Often this is firstly to a general children's ward at their local hospital. Children's wards and the health professionals working on them have always had this role,but recently (especially since the pandemic) the numbers of CYP needing to be admitted has increased. CYP also seem to be more unwell when they are admitted too for example needing to be admitted under the mental health act or needing feeding tubes to provide fluids and nutrition. Children's wards weren't designed for this and sometimes the health care professionals working on them haven't had enough training in looking after unwell CYP with mental health problems. Staff from children's wards across the country are reporting that they are finding supporting CYP admitted with mental health problems really challenging. Even though this not a new problem there is very little research into CYP with mental health problems admitted to general paediatric wards. We don't know the exact size of the problem,or what factors affect how well CYP do on wards. There is no research looking at the experiences of young people and their families when admitted to general children's wards because of their mental health. This is important information at the moment as services are struggling to cope and the NHS needs to understand what needs to change to develop and improve care. We have designed a study to research this in detail. There are 4 parts. The first part will look at the information all hospitals in England provide to the NHS about admissions so we can investigate overall numbers and patterns for who gets admitted and if this differs across the country. In the second part,we will study 15 children's wards across England to learn about admissions of CYP because of mental health in detail. We will first involve professionals,and CYP and families with experience of mental health admissions to help decide on what to study and measure at those wards. In the third part,we will interview CYP who were admitted because of their mental health from 5 of the 15 hospitals,as well as families and health professionals who looked after them. We will get information on their experiences of being admitted. The fourth part will happen at the end,bringing together what we have learnt. We will do this with a group of CYP,families,professionals and other stakeholders (such as representatives from national patient groups and professional groups) to come up with ways of communicating the information,and what recommendations to make. This research will be led by a team of children's doctors,a psychiatrist,and nursing experts who are also researchers. We also have a young person who is part of the team who has experience of involving young people in research. We are also teaming up with national health bodies and royal colleges that are able to influence planning and care using our results. We will have a group of patients,families and professionals to advise throughout the study too who will meet frequently throughout the research. We believe that this research is important and needed. It will look in detail at a really serious health care problem at the moment for how CYP are treated and have access and care for their mental health. It will impact positively by providing the information needed to develop the way care is provided for CYP and families.
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The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Observational type: Qualitative;
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WP1 – all admissions that meet the above criteria will be included. WP2 – all admissions that meet the above criteria will be included. WP3 - Using available data from WP1,our rapid review,and expert knowledge of the study team,we will describe selection criteria and define a sampling matrix,to ensure a representative sample of 5 cases,therefore exclusion criteria are to be determined. HCPs who work exclusively in the accident and emergency department
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Dr
Lee
Hudson
l.hudson@ucl.ac.uk
Kirsty
Phillips
kirsty.phillips.14@ucl.ac.uk
Adriana
Vazquez
adriana.vazquez.15@ucl.ac.uk
The study is sponsored by UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and funded by NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Co-ordinating Centre (NETSCC) .
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