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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Muthukrishnan Venkatesan, Dr Eleanor Smith, Dr Aditya SharmaORCiD
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal College of Psychiatrists.Commonly occurring mental health disorders have been well studied in terms of epidemiology, presentation, risk factors and management. However, rare or uncommon mental health disorders and events are harder to study. One way to do this is active surveillance. This article summarises how the Royal College of Psychiatrists Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance System was developed, as well as the key studies that have used the system and their impact, to make the case for a wider international surveillance unit for child and adolescent psychiatry. Keeping this surveillance active in different populations across the globe will add to existing knowledge and understanding of these uncommon disorders and events. This will in turn help in developing better frameworks for the identification and management for these disorders and events. It will also facilitate the sharing of ideas regarding current methodology, ethics, the most appropriate means of evaluating units and their potential applications.
Author(s): Venkatesan M, Smith E, Kyriakopoulos M, Sharma AN
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: BJPsych International
Year: 2024
Issue: ePub ahead of Print
Online publication date: 10/12/2024
Acceptance date: 01/11/2024
ISSN (print): 2056-4740
ISSN (electronic): 2058-6264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1192/bji.2024.36
DOI: 10.1192/bji.2024.36
Data Access Statement: Data availability is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.
