Anastasia Koumoula, Lauro Estivalete Marchionatti, Vasiliki Eirini Karagiorga, Julia Luiza Schafer, André Simioni, Arthur Caye, Aspasia Serdari, Konstantinos Kotsis, Maria Basta, Lilian Athanasopoulou, Vaios Dafoulis, Paraskevi Tatsiopoulou, Nikos Zilikis, Evangelia Vergouli, Panagiota Balikou, Efstathia Kapsimalli, Andromachi Mitropoulou, Alexandra Tzotzi, Nikanthi Klavdianou, Domna Zeleni, Sotiria Mitroulaki, Anna Botzaki, Giorgos Gerostergios, Giorgos Samiotakis, Giorgos Moschos, Ioanna Giannopoulou, Katerina Papanikolaou, Katerina Angeli, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Jill Emanuele, Kenneth Schuster, Eirini Karyotaki, Lily Kalikow, Katerina Pronoiti, Kathleen R Merikangas, Peter Szatmari, Pim Cuijpers, Katholiki Georgiades, Michael P Milham, Mimi Corcoran, Sarah Burke, Harold Koplewicz, Giovanni Abrahão Salum
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI) aims to enhance mental health care capacity for children and adolescents across Greece. Considering the need for evidence-based policy, the program developed an open-resource dataset for researching the field within the country. A comprehensive, mixed-method, community-based research was conducted in 2022/2023 assessing the current state, needs, barriers, and opportunities according to multiple viewpoints. We surveyed geographically distributed samples of 1,756 caregivers, 1,201 children/adolescents, 404 schoolteachers, and 475 health professionals using validated instruments to assess mental health symptoms, mental health needs, literacy and stigma, service use and access, professional practices, training background, and training needs and preferences...
April 1, 2024: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry