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McLaughlin S, Staniland L, Egan SJ, Wheadon J, Munro C, Preece D, Furlong Y, Mavaddat N, Thompson A, Robinson S, Chen W, Myers B. Interventions to reduce wait times for adolescents seeking mental health services: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open 2023; 13:e073438. [PMID: 37678945 PMCID: PMC10496663 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION The demand for adolescent mental health services has increased significantly in recent years, leading to excessive wait times for adolescents seeking mental health services and poor mental health outcomes. Timely access to mental health services is critical to reducing the risk of symptom chronicity and progression to mental disorder. A better understanding of whether and how interventions to reduce wait times impact mental health outcomes is needed to guide mental health policymakers and service planners in their approach to reducing wait times. METHODS AND ANALYSIS The scoping review will use Arksey and O'Malley's six-stage framework for scoping reviews and Rayyan to support screening, data extraction and evidence synthesis. The review will be conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. We will search the Cochrane Library, EBSCOhost, MEDLINE (Ovid), PsycArticles (Ovid), PsycINFO (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), Web of Science, ProQuest and Scopus databases for peer-reviewed texts published in English between 1 January 2000 and 28 February 2023. We will also search Google Scholar for additional grey literature. To be eligible for inclusion, studies must focus on adolescent populations aged 13-18 years and report on interventions to reduce wait times for any mental health service except crisis and emergency services. Title, abstract and full-text screening will be done by two reviewers. We will extract data describing the interventions and their effects on wait times and adolescent mental health outcomes, and we will identify strengths and limitations in the evidence base to inform recommendations for future research. A youth advisory group with lived experience of mental health difficulties will be consulted throughout the review process. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION Ethics approval is not required. Findings will be disseminated via peer-reviewed publications and presented at conferences. STUDY REGISTRATION The protocol was registered with the Open Science Framework on 20 February 2023 (https://osf.io/qt4zy).
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Affiliation(s)
- Stella McLaughlin
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Lexy Staniland
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Sarah J Egan
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Jessica Wheadon
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Caitlin Munro
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - David Preece
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Yulia Furlong
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Nahal Mavaddat
- School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Alexander Thompson
- Western Australia Country Health Service, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Suzanne Robinson
- Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Health Economics Unit, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
| | - Wai Chen
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Youth Mental Health and Developmental Neuropsychiatry, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Bronwyn Myers
- Curtin enAble Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa
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