Health technology assessment : HTA
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Health Technol Assess · Nov 2020
Randomized Controlled TrialAn intervention to improve the quality of life in children of parents with serious mental illness: the Young SMILES feasibility RCT.
Quality of life for children and adolescents living with serious parental mental illness can be impaired, but evidence-based interventions to improve it are scarce. ⋯ A public health approach to intervention might be best. Most children and adolescents living with serious parental mental illness remain well most of the time, so, although their absolute risks are low across outcomes (and most will remain resilient most of the time), consistent population estimates find their relative risk to be high compared with unexposed children. A public health approach to intervention needs to be both tailored to the particular needs of children and adolescents living with serious parental mental illness and agile to these needs so that it can respond to fluctuations over time.