Publications by authors named "Iliana Ortega"
Background: Mental health conditions affect one in seven young people and research suggests that current mental health services are not meeting the needs of most children and youth. Learning health systems are an approach to enhancing services through rapid, routinized cycles of continuous learning and improvement. Patient-reported outcome measures provide a key data source for learning health systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLatin American Trans-ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO): Study protocol.
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
June 2024
Article Synopsis
- OCD is a mental health disorder that affects around 2% of the world but not much is known about its causes.
- Most genetic studies on OCD so far have mainly focused on people of European ancestry, which could lead to unfair treatment options for those from other backgrounds.
- The LATINO project is collecting DNA and health information from 5,000 people with OCD from Latin America to improve understanding of the disorder and develop better treatments for everyone.
Article Synopsis
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects about 2% of people around the world, but we don’t know exactly what causes it.
- Most research so far has focused mainly on people of European descent, which can leave out important information for people from other backgrounds.
- The LATINO initiative aims to include 5,000 people with OCD from Latin America and other countries, helping to gather more diverse data to improve our understanding and treatment of OCD globally.