Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center
Clinical Assessment of Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients Upon
Admission and Discharge with Self-Report Measures
Principal Investigators
• Jeffrey Hunt, MD
• Mike Eltz, PhD
• Jennifer Dyl, PhD
Funding Source
This is a pilot study.
Description
In this project, adolescents admitted to the inpatient unit at Bradley
Hospital were routinely administered several self-report measures
upon admission and discharge, for use in their treatment and discharge
planning. Measures included those assessing depression, suicidality,
high-risk behaviors, problematic anger, anxiety, trauma, post-traumatic
stress symptoms, as well as a structured psychiatric interview based
on a range of DSM-IV diagnoses. We are in the process of examining
changes in patients' scores between the time of admission and discharge
on measures of suicidality and depression. We are also seeking to
examine the utility of the Childhood Inventory of Psychiatric Syndromes
(CHIPS), by comparing patients' scores on this measure to other
longer established measures assessing various clinical syndromes,
as well as to clinical consensus diagnoses.
Significance
Studying the utility of a standardized self-report assessment process
on an inpatient unit will be valuable in improving the efficacy
efficiency of patient care as well as accuracy of diagnosis. Comparing
patients' scores upon admission to those upon discharge will further
help to discern the degree to which symptoms are decreasing, increasing
or remaining the same as a result of the hospitalization.
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