Publications by authors named "R R J M M Vermeiren"
The needs of youth at-risk and their families, facing multiple problems and serious mental health issues, exceed the expertise and possibilities of a single stakeholder (professional, organization, municipality). These youngsters require care in which the expertise of different professionals and organizations is integrated. However, combining various types of expertise to provide integrated care to youth at-risk is challenging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChildren with autism and their parents face daily challenges that may be stressful for both. However, little is known about biological stress (hair cortisol concentrations [HCC]) in these families and its connection to children's health outcomes. This study investigates biological stress in children with autism and their parents and its associations with child mental health, eating behavior and BMI.
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- Longitudinal rs-fMRI studies on adolescent internalizing psychopathology are limited; this study investigates functional connectivity (FC) in amygdala subregions and whole-brain networks in treatment-naïve adolescents with clinical depression and anxiety.
- The study involved 23 adolescents starting treatment and 24 healthy controls, assessing FC changes over three months focusing on the laterobasal amygdala (LBA) and centromedial amygdala (CMA).
- Results indicated significant differences in FC development between the groups, with specific changes linked to symptom improvement, underscoring the need to consider amygdala subregions in neuroimaging research for better understanding of mental health in adolescents.
Compulsory interventions, including compulsory nasogastric tube feeding, are sometimes necessary for youth with life-threatening anorexia nervosa. However, these interventions are also potentially traumatic for patients and clinicians alike. To improve early recognition and prevention of compulsory interventions, we evaluated common factors among youth with anorexia nervosa who receive compulsory treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected child and adolescent mental health and at the end of the pandemic (April 2022) child mental health had not returned to pre-pandemic levels. We investigated whether this observed increase in mental health problems has continued, halted, or reversed after the end of the pandemic in children from the general population and in children in psychiatric care.
Methods: We collected parent-reported and child-reported data at two additional post-pandemic time points (November/December 2022 and March/April 2023) in children (8-18 years) from two general population samples ( = 818-1056 per measurement) and one clinical sample receiving psychiatric care ( = 320-370) and compared these with data from before the pandemic.