ArticleCanadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2022
Prevalence and Correlates of Physical-mental Multimorbidity in Outpatient Children From a Pediatric Hospital in Canada.
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- A systematic scoping review and gap analysis of questionnaires to assess multimorbidity among children.Pediatric research · 2026Pooled it
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- Sibling psychopathology as a mediator between disability in youth with chronic physical illness and sibling Health-Related quality of life.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2026Article
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- Mental health service contact in children with and without physical-mental multimorbidity.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Equivalence of psychiatric structured interviews and symptom checklists in predicting health-related quality of life in children with chronic physical illness.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Inflammatory Biomarkers Predictive of Psychopathology in Children With Physical Illness.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Association Between Youth Multimorbidity and Psychological Distress: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Associations Between Family Factors and Mental Health Service Use Among Children with Physical Illness: the Mediating Role of Child Psychopathology Trajectories.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Perceived School Belonging Among Youth with Chronic Physical Illness.Journal of psychoeducational assessment · 2024Article
- Continuity of mental disorders in children with chronic physical illness.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- An Epidemiological Study of Physical-Mental Multimorbidity in Youth: Une étude épidémiologique de la morbidité physique-mentale chez les jeunes.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2024Article
- Suicidal Ideation and Attempts Among Youth With Physical-Mental Comorbidity in Canada: Proposal for an Epidemiological Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Correlates of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity in Children With Physical Illness and Physical-Mental Multimorbidity.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2022Article
- Self-concept in Adolescents with Physical-Mental Comorbidity.Journal of multimorbidity and comorbidityArticle
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objectiveThe aim of this study was to estimate the six-month prevalence of mental illness in children with chronic physical illness (multimorbidity), examine agreement between parent and child reports of multimorbidity, and identify factors associated with child multimorbidity.
methodThe sample included 263 children aged 2-16 years with a physician-diagnosed chronic physical illness recruited from the outpatient clinics at a pediatric hospital. Children were categorized by physical illness according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)-10. Parent and child-reported six-month mental illness was based on the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents (MINI-KID).
resultsOverall, 101 (38%) of children had a parent-reported mental illness; 29 (25%) children self-reported mental illness. There were no differences in prevalence across ICD-10 classifications. Parent-child agreement on the MINI-KID was low (κ = 0.18), ranging from κ = 0.24 for specific phobia to κ = 0.03 for attention-deficit hyperactivity. From logistic regression modeling (odds ratio [OR] and 95% confidence interval), factors associated with multimorbidity were: child age (OR = 1.16 [1.04, 1.31]), male (OR = 3.76 [1.54, 9.22]), ≥$90,000 household income (OR = 2.57 [1.08, 6.22]), parental symptoms of depression (OR = 1.09 [1.03, 1.14]), and child disability (OR = 1.21 [1.13, 1.30]). Similar results were obtained when modeling number of mental illnesses.
conclusionsFindings suggest that six-month multimorbidity is common and similar across different physical illnesses. Level of disability is a robust, potentially modifiable correlate of multimorbidity that can be assessed routinely by health professionals in the pediatric setting to initiate early mental health intervention to reduce the incidence of multimorbidity in children.
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