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Innovations in Practice: Piloting electronic session‐by‐session monitoring in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: a preliminary study
Author(s) -
Hall Charlotte L.,
Moldavsky Maria,
Taylor John,
Marriott Michael,
Goodman Robert,
Sayal Kapil,
Hollis Chris
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/camh.12066
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , mental health , outcome (game theory) , set (abstract data type) , medicine , psychology , medical education , psychiatry , computer science , mathematics , mathematical economics , world wide web , programming language
Background Recent UK initiatives have advocated the use of session‐by‐session outcome measurement in CAMHS . However, little is known about the feasibility of this approach. Method The PROMPT study (Patient Reported Outcome Monitoring Progress Tracker) piloted an iP ad administered brief session‐by‐session measure (S × S) related to the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire impact supplement in three CAMHS teams. We report adherence to electronic S × S monitoring and a preliminary analysis of sensitivity to change. Results Adherence to S × S was 57%, which is higher than the completion rates for the standard set of outcome measures usually completed by clinicians and young people. S × S showed some sensitivity to change. Conclusions Session‐by‐session monitoring in CAMHS is worthy of further pursuit.