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The ICHOM Set of Patient-Centered Outcome Measures for Children & Young People with Depression & Anxiety, including OCD & PTSD, is the result of hard work by a group of leading psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health experts, measurement experts, and lived experience experts. It represents the outcomes that matter most to children and young people with depression & anxiety. We urge all providers around the world to start measuring these outcomes to better understand how to improve the lives of their service users.

  1. Defined by Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  2. Defined by General Functioning, and Disorder-Specific Impairment; Covers the Subdomains of Social Functioning, Peer Relationships, and Sleep
  3. Tracked via the Revised Children’s Anxiety & Depression Scale – Short Version (RCADS-25)
  4. Tracked via the Children’s Impact of Events Scale – Revised (CRIES-8), in populations with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  5. Tracked via the Obsessional Compulsive Inventory for Children (OCI-CV), in populations with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  6. Tracked via the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale – Screener/Recent – Self-report (C-SSRS), in populations aged 10 years and older
  7. Tracked via the KIDSCREEN-10
  8. Tracked via the Children’s Anxiety Life Interference Scale (CALIS), in populations with Anxiety
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Team that developed this set

AUSTRALIA
Evie Thomas*
George Patton | University of Melbourne
Jennie Hudson | Macquarie University
Peter Brann | Eastern Health Child Youth Mental Health Service
Judi Krause | Children’s Health and Hospital Services Queensland

BRAZIL
Christian Kieling | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

CHILE
Vania Martinez | Universidad de Chile

CANADA
Bryan Young* | Jack.org
Lucas Walters* | Jack.org
Peter Szatmari | The Hospital for Sick Children
Rochelle Babins-Wagner | Calgary Counselling Centre

FRANCE
Bruno Falissard | Université Paris-Sud; Inserm

GERMANY
Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer | University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

HONG KONG
Maggie Yue Zhao | University of Hong Kong

INDIA
Kanika Malik | Sangath
Meghna Khatwani* | It’s Ok to Talk

JAPAN
Shin-ichi Ishikawa | Doshisha University

NIGERIA
Abiodun Adewuya | Lagos State University

SINGAPORE
Say How Ong | Institute of Mental Health Singapore

UNITED KINGDOM
Cathy Creswell | University of Oxford
Faraz Mughal | Keele University
Karolin Krause (Research Fellow) | University College London
Laura Birkinshaw* | Young Minds UK
Miranda Wolpert (Chair) | Wellcome Trust
Sophie Chung (Project Manager) | ICHOM

UNITED STATES
Anne Marie Albano | New York State Psychiatric Institute; Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Christopher Forrest | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Thomas Ollendick | Virginia Tech
Kathleen Delaney | Rush College of Nursing

*Patient representative / advisor

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