An interdisciplinary intervention for children with complex health complaints; a feasibility study of selection criteria

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Pediatrics

Ånen Årli¹  Ragnhild B Lygre²  Irene Elgen²  Torhild Heggestad³ 

[1] Department of Child and Adolescent Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway;Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway;Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;Department of Research and Development, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway;

关键词: child health services;    patient care;    mental health;    complex health complaint;    psychosomatics;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fped.2023.1167528

 received in 2023-02-16, accepted in 2023-09-01,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThere is a need for re-designing the health service for children suffering from complex and compound health complaints. Based on a previous register study, we have developed criteria to select patients with complex health complaints eligible for an Intervention with an interdisciplinary professional team. The team consists of a pediatrician, a psychologist and a physiotherapist.MethodTo identify children with complex health complaints who would benefit from this intervention, we have selected a group of patients by using a set of criteria consisting of the following criteria: multi-referred young school age children referred to both mental health service and pediatric service. This study focuses on the feasibility of these criteria by measuring participation and compliance and by gathering feedback from the team members in the interdisciplinary team.ResultsAmong 677 children aged 6−12 years referred to a regional hospital, we found 32 (5%) children eligible for the interdisciplinary Intervention according to the applied criteria. Only 6% of the invited parents declined to participate in the intervention. According to the interdisciplinary team, the intervention was found suitable for 88% of the children.ConclusionThe suggested criteria seemed feasible, in terms of identifying eligible patients for this interdisciplinary Intervention for children with complex health complaints.Clinical Trial RegistrationRetrospectively registered on www.clinicaltrials.gov, ID NCT04652154, on the 3rd of December 2020.

【 授权许可】

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© 2023 Elgen, Lygre, Årli and Heggestad.