The effect of the Roots of Empathy program on the use of psychotropic medications among youth in Manitoba
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Date
2016
Authors
Dahl, Lindsey
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Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice
Abstract
Background: Psychotropic medications prescriptions to youth have increased. Roots of Empathy (ROE) is a social and emotional learning program that may influence the use of psychotropic medication.
Methods: Administrative data was analyzed in a matched sample of children who received ROE during 2002/03 to 2012/13. Kaplan-Meier survival curves and Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate the association between ROE and psychotropic medication dispensations.
Results: Few significant differences were observed. Children who received ROE in kindergarten to grade 3 had a lower adjusted hazard for an anxiolytic dispensation. Children who received ROE in grade 7 to 8 had a higher hazard for an antipsychotic dispensation. Males who received the program had an increased hazard for an antipsychotic dispensation.
Conclusion: There was no consistent differences in the likelihood of being dispensed a psychotropic medication between children who received ROE and children who did not in Manitoba.
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Psychotropic medications, Program evaluation, Children, Social and emotional learning
Citation
Dahl, L., Chartier, M., Fransoo, R., & Tefft, B. (2016). The effect of the Roots of Empathy program on the use of psychotropic medications among youth in Manitoba. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice, 36(11), 267.