Out-of-home interventions for adolescents who were treated according to the Open Dialogue model for mental health care
Bergström, Tomi; Kurtti, Mia; Miettunen, Jouko; Yliruka, Laura; Valtanen, Kari (2023-08-25)
Bergström, T., Kurtti, M., Miettunen, J., Yliruka, L., & Valtanen, K. (2023). Out-of-home interventions for adolescents who were treated according to the Open Dialogue model for mental health care. In Child Abuse & Neglect (Vol. 145, p. 106408). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106408.
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Abstract
Background: The Open Dialogue approach (OD) emphasizes community-based psychiatric treatment for adolescents, but its success in achieving this is poorly documented.
Objective: To analyse out-of-home intervention usage in a national sample of adolescent psychiatric patients and determine if OD is linked to increased time until out-of-home intervention.
Participants and setting: The register-based cohort study included all adolescents aged 13–20 who received psychiatric treatment in Finland between 2003 and 2008. The research group (n = 780) included adolescents whose treatment was initiated in the Western Lapland catchment area, where OD covered the entire psychiatric service. The comparison group (n = 44,088) included the rest of Finland. National register data encompassed the period from treatment onset until the end of the 10-year follow-up or death. The primary outcomes of interest were the times to the first and second out-of-home intervention, including foster care, supportive housing, and hospitalization. The secondary outcomes included the clinical/demographic characteristics of adolescents treated out-of-home.
Methods: The hypothesis was tested via an inverse probability of treatment–weighted Cox hazard model, plus within- and between-group comparisons to analyse the secondary outcome.
Results: OD was associated with increased time to the first (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR]: 0.61, 95%CI: 0.52–0.72) and second (aHR: 0.75, 95%CI: 0.58–0.96) out-of-home interventions. In both service types, there was a subgroup of adolescents with repeated out-of-home interventions, who also demonstrated poorer long-term outcomes.
Conclusions: OD-based psychiatric services for adolescents are associated with fewer out-of-home interventions. The clinical significance of the findings warrants further research.
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