OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Effectiveness of a school-based mental health intervention for school teachers in urban Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial	151
The psychometric properties of the child anxiety and depression life interference scale (CADLIS)	75
The effects of training female students in emotion regulation techniques on their social problem-solving skills and social anxiety: a randomized controlled trial	66
Mediating role of depression in the association between alexithymia and nonsuicidal self-injury in a representative sample of adolescents in Taiwan	52
In memoriam of Prof. Alessandro Zuddas (1957–2022)	40
Mothers’ daily perceived stress influences their children’s mental health during SARS-CoV-2-pandemic—an online survey	38
Evaluating a prototype digital mental health literacy intervention for children and young people aged 11–15 in Java, Indonesia: a mixed methods, multi-site case study evaluation	37
Exploring the relationship between media use and depressive symptoms among gender diverse youth: findings of the Mental Health Days Study	36
Exploring navigation of gender in a sample of clinically referred young people attending the gender identity development service	34
Patterns of attentional biases in children and emotional symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: a two-wave longitudinal study	32
Change in screen time and overuse, and their association with psychological well-being among US-wide school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Hea	32
Association between patterns of biological rhythm and self-harm: evidence from the baoxing youth mental health (BYMH) cohort	31
Outpatient screening for anxiety and depression symptoms in adolescents with type 1 diabetes - a cross-sectional survey	31
Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of aripiprazole oral solution in children and adolescents with Tourette’s disorder	30
Primary care visits due to mental health problems and use of psychotropic medication during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finnish adolescents and young adults	30
Socioeconomic inequalities in child and adolescent mental health in Australia: the role of parenting style and parents’ relationships	28
Validity, reliability and clinical utility of ASSIST-Y in assessing risk of substance-related harm and dependence in Spanish male adolescents	26
School modality, race and ethnicity, and mental health of U.S. adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Antidepressant treatment initiation among children and adolescents with acute versus long COVID: a large retrospective cohort study	26
An intervention study of poly-victimization among rural left-behind children based on the theoretical framework of planned behavior	25
Mental health and psychological well-being of Kenyan adolescents from Nairobi and the Coast regions in the context of COVID-19	24
Resilience, well-being and informal and formal support in multi-problem families during the Covid-19 pandemic	24
Elementary school teachers knowledge and attitude towards attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder in Gondar, Ethiopia: a multi-institutional study	23
Global prevalence of nocturnal enuresis and associated factors among children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis	23
Transitioning to adult mental health services for young people with ADHD: an Italian-based survey on practices for pediatric and adult services	23

Fathers and mothers’ parenting stress and adolescent depressive symptoms: the mediating roles of overt and covert coparenting conflict behaviors	23
The developmental trajectories and modifiable factors of adolescents’ subjective well-being from late adolescence to early adulthood	23
The CAMP study: feasibility and clinical correlates of standardized assessments of substance use in a youth psychiatric inpatient sample	22
Making sense of change after Intensive Trauma Treatment: a mixed-methods study into adolescents’ experience of efficacy	22
Using the biopsychosocial model for identifying subgroups of detained juveniles at different risk of re-offending in practice: a latent class regression analysis approach	21
Assessment of life factors affecting the experience of depressive symptoms in adolescents: a secondary analysis using the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey	21
A retrospective medical chart review of clinical outcomes in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder treated with guanfacine extended-release in routine Canadian clinica	21
Longitudinal association between parental-to-child-Maltreatment and self-reported Generalized Anxiety Disorder symptoms in Pakistani Adolescents	21
Sex and the streets: the open secret of sexual abuse among Pakistan’s two million street children	20
Psychophysiological mechanisms underlying the failure to speak: a comparison between children with selective mutism and social anxiety disorder on autonomic arousal	20
Association of the type of counselor with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts: a survey of South Korean adolescents	20
Association of tumor location with anxiety and depression in childhood brain cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Perceived discrimination and relative deprivation in Chinese migrant adolescents: the mediating effect of locus of control and moderating effect of duration since migration	19
Neurocognition and functioning in adolescents at clinical high risk for psychosis	19
Characterizing mental health related service contacts in children and youth: a linkage study of health survey and administrative data	19
Correction: Exposure to potentially traumatic events and PTSD symptomatology in Norwegian 11–13-year-olds: results from the Bergen Child Study	18
Self-regulation facets differentially predict internalizing symptom trajectories from middle childhood to early adolescence: a longitudinal multimethod study	18
Reflective functioning and emotion regulation in adolescents with a history of sexual offending: a comparative study with a non-offending control group	17
Substance use in sexual minority youth: prevalence in an urban cohort	17
Training approaches for the dissemination of clinical guidelines for NSSI: a quasi-experimental trial	17
The importance of familial risk factors in children with ADHD: direct and indirect effects of family adversity, parental psychopathology and parenting practices on externalizing symptoms	16
Impact of Long-COVID in children: a large cohort study	16
Bridge symptoms between parenting styles and proximal psychological risk factors associated with adolescent suicidal thoughts: a network analysis	16
Perceived school bullying and psychotic-like experiences in sexual minority adolescents: the mediating and moderating roles of resilience	16
The COVID-19 pandemic and wellbeing in Switzerland-worse for young people?	15
What aspects of the pandemic had the greatest impact on adolescent mental health: duration of lockdown or subjective experience?	15
I can’t feel your face: callous-unemotional traits, social anxiety, and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	14
Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of Patient Health Questionnaire and generalized anxiety disorder among adolescents in Nepal	14
Early adversity and prosocial behavior in adolescents from Bogotá: a cross-sectional study	14
Assessment of affective dysregulation in children: development and evaluation of a semi-structured interview for parents and for children	14
Effectiveness of a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-based intervention for reducing anxiety among adolescents in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka: cluster randomized controlled trial	13
Prevalence of unhealthy behaviors and their associations with non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation and suicide attempt among Chinese adolescents	13
Predictors of treatment outcome in higher levels of care among a large sample of adolescents with heterogeneous eating disorders	13
Evidence of individual differences in the long-term social, psychological, and cognitive consequences of child maltreatment	13
Association between number of confidants and adolescent anxiety/depression: a school-based study	13
Physical activity, recreational screen time, and depressive symptoms among Chinese children and adolescents: a three-wave cross-lagged study during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
A comparison of expressed emotion between mothers and their adolescent daughters with and without a history of nonsuicidal self-injury	12
The impact of school bullying on the mental health of boarding secondary school students: the mediating roles of school belongingness and resilience	12
Acceptability and feasibility of enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (eCBT) for children and adolescents with obsessive–compulsive disorder	12
Prevalence of child maltreatment in a nationwide sample of 18 to 31 year-olds in Germany	12
School bullying victimization-associated anxiety in Chinese children and adolescents: the mediation of resilience	12
“I’m trying to take the lead from my child”: experiences Parenting Young Nonbinary Children	12
Identifying multilevel and multisectoral strategies to develop a Theory of Change for improving child and adolescent mental health services in a case-study district in South Africa	12
Distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic for children with ADHD and/or ASD: a European multi-center study examining the role of executive function deficits and age	12
Antibiotic use and risk of autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a population-based cohort study	12
Child and adolescent mental health services in the Western Cape Province of South Africa: the perspectives of service providers	11
Evaluating the effectiveness of a social and emotional learning program among preschool children in Japan: an experimental cohort study	11
The effects of maternal depression on their perception of emotional and behavioral problems of their internationally adopted children	11
Peer victimization, depression, and non-suicidal self-injury among Chinese adolescents: the moderating role of the 5-HTR2A gene rs6313 polymorphism	11
Parent-adolescent informant discrepancy on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the UK Millennium Cohort Study	11

Analyzing body dissatisfaction and gender dysphoria in the context of minority stress among transgender adolescents	10
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and emotional disorders until age 22: a danish register study	10
Multimodal co-therapy for unaccompanied minors: a qualitative study	10
Is physical exercise associated with reduced adolescent social anxiety mediated by psychological resilience?: evidence from a longitudinal multi-wave study in China	10
A “silent storm”: uncovering the escalating crisis in mental healthcare for children and adolescents in Slovenia during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Mental health needs in war-affected refugee children: barriers, gaps, and strategies for effective care	10
Relationship between children with neurodevelopmental disorders and their caregivers and friends during early phase of COVID-19 school closure in Japan: Association with difficulty in implementing inf	10
Relational security: conceptualization and operationalization in small-scale, strengths-based, community-embedded youth justice facilities	9
Optimising child and adolescent mental health care – a scoping review of international best-practice strategies and service models	9
Emergence of psychiatric adverse events during antipsychotic treatment in AP-naïve children and adolescents	9
Easing pandemic-related restrictions, easing psychosocial stress factors in families with infants and toddlers? Cross-sectional results of the three wave CoronabaBY study from Germany	9
Scoping review on mental health standards for Black youth: identifying gaps and promoting equity in community, primary care, and educational settings	9
Revisiting best practices: a reflection on the online evaluation and treatment of ADHD and implications for future practice	9
Receiving a gift and feeling robbed: a phenomenological study on parents’ experiences of Brief Admissions for teenagers who self-harm at risk for suicide	9
Stability of self-reported psychopathic traits in at-risk adolescents in youth welfare and juvenile justice institutions	9
Child and adolescent mental health services in Khartoum State, Sudan: a desktop situational analysis	9
Intentions and barriers to help-seeking in adolescents and young adults differing in depression severity: cross-sectional results from a school-based mental health project	9
Association between weight, weight perception, weight teasing and mental health among adolescents	9
Longitudinal Covid-19 effects on child mental health: vulnerability and age dependent trajectories	9
Has the “Double Reduction” policy relieved stress? A follow-up study on Chinese adolescents	9
Publisher Correction: Emergence of psychiatric adverse events during antipsychotic treatment in AP-naïve children and adolescents	9
CAPMH: development of the first open access journal in the field of child mental health	9
Correction to: Common and differential variables of anxiety and depression in adolescence: a nation-wide smartphone-based survey	9
The effectiveness of psychoeducation and problem-solving on depression and treatment adherence in adolescents living with HIV in Botswana: an exploratory clinical trial	9
Parental conscription and cumulative adverse experiences in war-affected children and adolescents and their impact on mental health: a comment following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	9
Autism spectrum disorder prevalence in Italy: a nationwide study promoted by the Ministry of Health	9
The aftermath of war; mental health, substance use and their correlates with social support and resilience among adolescents in a post-conflict region of Sri Lanka	9
Experience of annual events in the family and social adjustment of school-age children	8
The burden and its determinants of mental health distress among adolescents dwelling in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Developmental disorders among Norwegian-born children with immigrant parents	8
Clinical profiles and care of transgender children and adolescents who receive specialized consultations: do individuals who are assigned female at birth differ?	8
The association of chronotype, sleep duration and trajectories of health-risk behaviors among college students: a cohort study	8
Relationship between time spent playing internet gaming apps and behavioral problems, sleep problems, alexithymia, and emotion dysregulations in children: a multicentre study	8
Pediatric suicide attempts lagged during the COVID-19 pandemic: a European multicenter study	8
Association of early parent–child separation with depression, social and academic performance in adolescence and early adulthood: a prospective cohort study	8
Machine learning for distinguishing saudi children with and without autism via eye-tracking data	8
Cannabinoids for treating psychiatric disorders in youth: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials	8
Changes in self-efficacy in Japanese school-age children with and without high autistic traits after the Universal Unified Prevention Program: a single-group pilot study	8
Gender differences in symptom interactions between problematic smartphone use and social anxiety in adolescents: a network analysis	8
Children and adolescents at risk for seclusion and restraint in inpatient psychiatric treatment: a case control study	8
Therapeutic horseback riding for at-risk adolescents in residential care	8
Lifestyle changes, mental health, and health-related quality of life in children aged 6–7 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Germany	8
A feasibility study of a preventative, transdiagnostic intervention for mental health problems in adolescence: building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET)	8
Changes in psychosocial functioning among urban, school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Effects of an attachment-based parent intervention on mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder: preliminary findings from a non-randomized controlled trial	7
Western Australian adolescent emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020	7
A national prevalence and profile of single and multiple developmental delays among children aged from 1 year up to 12 years: an Egyptian community-based study	7
Extended treatment of multimodal cognitive behavioral therapy in children and adolescents with obsessive–compulsive disorder improves symptom reduction: a within-subject design	7
Child maltreatment exposure and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: the mediating roles of difficulty in emotion regulation and depressive symptoms	7
Determinants of school attendance in elementary school students in Japan: a structural equation model	7
Lifetime prevalence and clinical correlates of nonsuicidal self-injury in youth inpatients with eating disorders: a retrospective chart review	7
Social rejection sensitivity and its role in adolescent emotional disorder symptomatology	7
Correction: A systematic review of telehealth screening, assessment, and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder	7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Effects of artificial intelligence aibo intervention on alleviating distress and fear in children	7
Concordance between two intrapersonal psychological resilience scales: how should we be measuring resilience?	7
The mediating role of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in the relationship between childhood trauma and suicidality among adolescents: a structural equation model	7
Association between psychosocial functioning, health status and healthcare access of asylum seekers and refugee children: a population-based cross-sectional study in a German federal state	7
Transition age youth mental health: addressing the gap with telemedicine	7
The experience of bullying among adolescents receiving mental health care: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	7