DREAMS

Dutch REsearch in child and Adolescent Mental health

Status: New

DREAMS is a collaboration between the four large, academic institutions for child and adolescent psychiatry in the Netherlands: Accare, Curium (Leiden), Karakter (Nijmegen) and Levvel (Amsterdam).

By collaborative effort, we aim to identify and investigate current issues in Dutch mental healthcare for youth and predictors of successful treatment. We also investigate how current societal problems, such as the Covid-19 crisis, may affect children and adolescents that are being treated at one of the participating institutions. DREAMS is a new scientific consortium and therefore data is currently being collected. In the future, we might also start recruiting patients for scientific research projects that are part of DREAMS.

Background

DREAMS is being conducted to improve our understanding of the children and adolescents that are being treated at the participating institutions. In this respect, we aim to improve the current mental healthcare for vulnerable youth in the Netherlands.

The research study

Depending on the type of study, a variety of methods may be applicable for DREAMS. Examples include large online surveys, or investigating more specific subgroups of youth (and/or their families). This will be, however, dependent on the specific aims of a particular study.

Collaboration

DREAMS is a collaboration between Accare, Curium (Leiden), Karakter (Nijmegen) and Levvel (Amsterdam).

Publications

Changes in child and adolescent mental health across the COVID‐19 pandemic (2018–2023): Insights from general population and clinical samples in the Netherlands

Published on date

November 2023

Published in

JCPP Advances

The effects of COVID-19 on child mental health: Biannual assessments up to April 2022 in a clinical and two general population samples

Published on date

March 2023

Published in

JCPP Advances

Internalizing problems before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in independent samples of Dutch children and adolescents with and without pre-existing mental health problems

Published on date

May 2022

Published in

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Mental and Social Health of Children and Adolescents With Pre-existing Mental or Somatic Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown

Published on date

8 July 2021

Published in

Frontiers in Psychiatry

De landelijke Coronamaatregelen, en in het bijzonder de meer strenge ‘lockdowns’ in Nederland hebben geleid tot een toename aan psychische klachten onder kinderen en jongeren. Vanuit DREAMS hebben we het geestelijk en sociaal welzijn tijdens de eerste Corona lockdown in Nederland onderzocht bij jongeren met psychische klachten, die op dat moment in behandeling waren bij de zorginstellingen...