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War-exposed adolescents screening positive for mental health symptoms indicate a need for diagnostic evaluation to inform care
  1. Elizabeth Whitney Pollio1,
  2. Carol S North2
  1. 1School of Nursing, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA
  2. 2Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Whitney Pollio; whitneypollio{at}boisestate.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104152

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    Commentary on: Goto R, Pinchuk I, Kolodezhny O, et al (2024). Mental health of adolescents exposed to the war in Ukraine. JAMA Pediatrics, 178 (5), 480-488. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0295.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Individuals screening positive require diagnostic evaluation to inform psychiatric treatment decisions and mental health interventions.

    • Future research should expand these findings with objective measures of war/trauma exposure and full diagnostic assessment.

    Context

    The study by Goto et al screened adolescents across Ukraine for mental health consequences of war.1 These adolescents had a range of exposures to the Russian invasion beginning in early 2022 and completed self-report symptom questionnaires. Prior studies cited in the article suggested that children and adolescents may be especially vulnerable to war-related mental health problems. Given the difficulties of conducting research during ongoing hostilities, this study’s …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.