Adolescent psychiatry: Youth Well-being Study and REAL-SMART

Our group’s main focus of interest is the psychological and physical wellbeing of young people and the interaction between these two aspects. We also study the ways and reasons why young people use drugs and alcohol as well as possible interventive and preventive strategies.

We are currently utilizing these datasets:
The Youth Wellbeing Study
REAL-SMART project =
a) The Recognition and early intervention for alcohol and substance abuse in adolescence (REAL)
b) The Systemic metabolic alterations related to different psychiatric disease categories in adolescent outpatients (SMART)

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Keywords

clinical medicine drugs and alcohol physical wellbeing of young people psychological wellbeing of young people

Group members - UEF

Others

Cooperation partners

National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Department of Public Health, UEF
Department of Pharmacy, UEF
Department of Radiology, Kuopio University Hospital
Department of Clinical Physiology, Kuopio University Hospital