D2.3 Matrix of youth mental health measures

To provide a matrix of measures which can be used not only in EARLY but as well in other projects on youth mental health, we will map available measures on youth mental health and identify those which are easy to use, license free and culture and youth sensitive. Therefore, in task 2.3. we will map evaluate measures on youth mental health and identify those which are easy to use and culture and youth sensitive. Available tools are for example the Youth Anxiety Measure (YAM-5) which is a validated self- and parent-report questionnaire to assess anxiety disorder symptoms in children and adolescents. (Muris et al., 2017). For depression the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC), a 20-item self-reported depression inventory with possible scores ranging from 0 to 60 is available (Downey, Jackson and Fernandez, 2016). For quality of life, the Youth Quality of Life Instrument (YQOL) is available. For Well-being the WHO-5 Well-Being Index, consisting of 5 questions, is available (Winther and Dinesen, 2015). For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the International Development and Psychometric Properties of the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen (CATS) might be used. For substance use a variety of measures are available on which the expert group in Emden is working. The measures with the best psychometric characteristics will be identified. To consider perspectives from different disciplines experts of psychology and psychiatry coming from the same country will both contribute to drafting the measure.SAPIENZA, HS EL, ULB, LOGOS, UMFCV, UMT and TAU are involved in this work package, to ensure the measurement framework draws on their multi-faceted expertise and is fit-for-purpose for their planned work. Work package leads (SAPIENZA and HS EL) will provide technical leadership and coordination and take on final preparations of documents. Further partner research institutions will contribute their expertise to accomplishment of this task.