A University at Buffalo psychiatrist who has played a critical role in getting mental health screening and treatment integrated into routine care for adults and adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF) has been awarded $3 million from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to focus on the mental health of children with the disease. Led by UB and launched this summer, the new study is an outgrowth of The International Depression Epidemiological Study (TIDES), which began in 2014 and was the largest study of mental health in adolescents and adults with CF. As a result of TIDES, annual screening for depression and anxiety is now part of routine CF care for nearly 90% of adults and adolescents with CF in the U.
S. "That's the goal of this new study, which we are calling TIDES 2.0," says Beth A.
Smith, MD, principal investigator, interim chair of psychiatry in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, medical director of the Children's Psychiatry Clinic in Oishei Children's Hospital and founding chair of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Mental Health Advisory Committee. It will allow us to take what we have done nationally and internationally for adolescents and adults with CF and do it for children from 18 months up to 11 years old." Beth A.
Smith, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo The study will evaluate the national prevalence of mental health concerns in children with CF under 12 years of age. It will identify the best ways to scre.