Psychosocial functioning and associated socio-environmental factors of children with severe mental illness: findings from the tertiary mental health center in India

ABSTRACT

The present Retrospective Chart Review aimed to study the psychosocial functioning, clinical and socio-environmental profile of children with severe mental illness (SMI). The correlation and parametric testing were performed to find the relationship and difference among the variables. A total of 69 individual case files were reviewed, and Children’s Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) was used to rate the current global level of functioning. Children were found to have moderate to severe level of psychosocial functional impairment. No statistically significant mean difference was found between the CGAS scores and socio-environmental and clinical variables. But positive and negative correlation was found between clinical variables and CGAS score.

KEYWORDS:

• Mental health
• psychosocial functioning
• children
• social factors
• India

Acknowledgments

Researchers would like to thank the nurses from Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department and Medical Records Department of NIMHANS for their support in making the data extraction and collection easy.

Disclosure statement

There are potential conflicts of interest.

Ethic approval

Approval is granted by the Institutional Ethics Committee, NIMHANS (NO. NIMH/DO/ (BEH.Sc. DIV)/2020-21.

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Funding

This study received no specific grants from any funding agency and commercial or not-for-profit sectors.