12 months follow up of psychiatric adolescents treated with a interprofessional intervention.

Aim : The aim is to study the first one year outcome of psychiatric adolescents treated with a multiprofessional intervention, in terms of psychopathology and global psychosocial functioning. The context is a Service for Adolescents, a daily center, which receives adolescents between 12 and 19 with psychopathological disorders of middle - severe seriousness. Multiprofessional team is formed by a child neuropsychiatrist, a psychologist and three educationals. Patients undergo a multimodal treatment, characterized by integrated educational and clinical actions. Sample : Among 100 adolescents who were referred to the Centre, 65 individuals had been clinically followed for 12 months. The sample is formed by 48 males (71,6%) and 19 females (28,4%) aged 12 to 19 years. 20 adolescents (31 %) attend primary school, 22 adolescents (34 %) secondary school, while 22 patients (35 %) interrupted educational career. Methodology: To verify the efficacy of treatments, it has run a retrospective study which has analysed those treated patients for whom one year follow up was available. The psychiatric disorders of the subjects were diagnosed according to ICD 10 (WHO 1994). The Global Assessment Functioning Scale (GAF) and Youth Self Report (YSR 11-18) were used to evaluate therapeutic efficacy of interventions 12 months after the beginning. Data about patients were collected in an anamnesis schedule, then transferred into a computerised database for computation, which is performed using SSPS version 10 and SAS® package, rel. 9.1.3. Results: One year follow up shows that the multiprofessional treatment has been efficacy. Actually, with regards to YSR scores, it is to be noticed a general improvement of symptoms and problems reported by adolescents 12 months. Moreover according to the operators’ valuation throughout the GAF, one year later too, it is to be noticed a general improvement in the initial conditions, pointed out by the ascendant trends in the ratings.