Overview
When youth experience mental health and substance use issues, it’s important to understand changes in their function, such as their participation in daily activities. Patient-reported outcomes can be used to assess the effectiveness of the mental health care and substance use support that youth access. However, tools for patient-reported outcomes have been developed with input from adults – there have been no tools that measure function that were developed specifically for youth.
The Patient-Reported Outcome Measure of Function (F-PROM) is a tool developed specifically for measuring youth function. The team is studying the effectiveness of using the F-PROM and optimizing it based on youth feedback.
This study is led by Dr. Skye Barbic (Head Scientist at Foundry and Associate Professor at University of British Columbia) in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Thank you to Foundry North Shore, Foundry Prince George, Foundry Richmond and Foundry Vancouver-Granville for their participation as the study sites.
Resources
- Daly Z, Jenkins EK, Adair S, Howard AF, Barbic S. (2026). Climate worry and daily life impacts among a sample of Canadian youth accessing integrated youth services. The Journal of Climate Change and Health. 27:100650.