Mental health‐related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole‐of‐population descriptive study
About 45% of mental health-related hospitalisations of 12-17-year-old adolescents were of people who had had contact with child protection services by the age of 11 years, although only 15.5% of all adolescents had histories of child protection contact. The trauma associated with a history of child protection can have longer term sequelae, and this should be considered when adolescents are hospitalised with mental health conditions.
Authors
- Alexandra Procter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8612-2188)
- Julie M. Petersen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4146-5624)
- J T Judd (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0484-3561)
- Alicia Montgomerie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9620-3894)
- Catherine Chittleborough (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3196-7137)
- Rhiannon Pilkington (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6974-8496)
- John P. Lynch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6438-0300)
- Jemma Anderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5736-0512)
- Catia Malvaso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1227-5434)
- Jon Jureidini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7585-2660)
Institutions
- Women's and Children's Hospital (AU)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Medical Journal of Australia
- Published
- 2024-10-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.52489
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.28
Funders
- Westpac Scholars Trust
- Medical Research Council
- Australian Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council