Clinical Trial Details
— Status: Completed
Administrative data
NCT number |
NCT02707848 |
Other study ID # |
201411056RIN |
Secondary ID |
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Status |
Completed |
Phase |
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First received |
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Last updated |
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Start date |
September 1, 2014 |
Est. completion date |
December 31, 2016 |
Study information
Verified date |
September 2021 |
Source |
National Taiwan University Hospital |
Contact |
n/a |
Is FDA regulated |
No |
Health authority |
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Study type |
Observational
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Clinical Trial Summary
This 3-year school-based epidemiological study on child and adolescent mental disorders aims
to obtain the prevalence rate and identify the psychosocial, individual, environmental, and
familial risk factors for mental disorders including learning disability, autism spectrum
disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct
disorder, mood disorders (major depression, dysthymia, bipolar disorder), anxiety disorders,
phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and substance use
disorders in Taiwan.
Description:
Despite several waves of epidemiological studies in adult and elderly mental disorders in the
past decades, revealing inconsistent results, little is known about the prevalence of mental
disorders in the child and young adolescent population in Taiwan. However, there is an
increasing trend of child and adolescent mental disorders over the past decades consistently
reported across countries. With the revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders to the current version-5th edition (DSM-5), there has been no
epidemiological study using DSM-5 in youth population in the world. The DSM-5 was published
in October 2014. It warrants an epidemiological study on child and adolescent mental
disorders using the DSM-5 as diagnostic criteria in Taiwan.
This is a two-stage design to conduct screening for mental disorders including autism and all
neuropsychological studies in addition to questionnaires. Moreover, clinical assessment will
be conducted among urban students (n = 3000) and rural students (n = 1500) from a three-stage
cluster sampling. All the screen positive (estimated n = 900) and 10% of screen negative
(estimated n = 360) will receive the full diagnostic interview (K-SADS-E to obtain the
pregnancy, developmental and medical history. For students who leave of absence, we will
visit them at home to complete all the assessments.
The investigators anticipate this study will provide the prevalence of a wide range of
developmental and psychiatric disorders in children and our results will also provide a
comprehensive risk factors for each psychiatric disorder identified in this study, including
neurocognitive, developmental, familiar, and environmental factors. The individual, combined,
and interactive effects of these predictors can be identified in this study. This study will
definitely provide precious data for the government to develop a preventive program for
mental disorders and a promotion program for mental health and well-being.