Follow-up of adolescents treated in a psychiatric hospital: operational solutions to some methodological problems of clinical research.
Procedural problems inhibiting follow-up research on psychiatric patients are discussed, and solutions offered, in the areas of ethical concerns, study design, selection of variables, collection of data, and researcher-clinician relationship. Early communication with patients about methods and goals, and maintenance of rapport and feedback between research and treatment staffs may overcome many difficulties of long-term research, and even aid treatment.
D000293:Adolescent; D003142:Communication; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005246:Feedback; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008722:Methods; D012107:Research Design