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  1. Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of complex associations between stress, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and smartphone addiction in adolescents. However, the paucity of studies evaluating the...

    Authors: Onat Yetim, Lut Tamam, Ayşegül Efe, İlham Sebea Alleil and Resul Çakır
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:70
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  2. This study examined the time trends of body dissatisfaction and dieting among Japanese adolescents and the possible associated mental health problems.

    Authors: Shoko Hamada, Hitoshi Kaneko, Masayoshi Ogura and Andre Sourander
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:69
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  3. Numerous studies have found a strong correlation between emotional abuse in childhood and aggressive behavior in adolescents, especially among rural youth. However, the complex relationship between the differe...

    Authors: Yuhao Wang, Yuxuan Liu, Susu Tian, Xinyi Hu, Jiayi Tian, Yingxue Wang, Yihan Wang, Chunxia Miao and Wei Wang
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:68
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  4. Life transitions, such as adolescence, starting higher education or employment, and parenthood, are universally experienced yet psychologically demanding phases that can compromise mental health. While some tr...

    Authors: Jörg M. Fegert, Götz Gottschalk, Renee Schneider, Emily Sitarski, Viknesh Sounderajah and Garth Graham
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:67
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  5. Family factors like parental psychopathology and parental expressed emotion, referring to the emotional atmosphere within a family, play a significant role in the maintenance and treatment outcome of anorexia ...

    Authors: Hannah Lea Klüber, Annick Martin, Franziska Schlensog-Schuster, Andreas Hiemisch, Wieland Kiess, Anja Hilbert and Ricarda Schmidt
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:66
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  6. Opening visits in Intensive Care Units (ICU) to children and adolescents encounters fears and resistance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact on children’s psychological well-being of a prepared v...

    Authors: Giulia Lamiani, Federica Bonazza, Michela Maxia, Massimo Walter Rivolta, Giovanni Mistraletti and Elena Vegni
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:65
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  7. Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) is gaining recognition as a promising intervention for treatment-refractory mental health conditions in adults. While interest in its applications for adolescents is growing...

    Authors: Sarah Forsberg, Amanda E. Downey, Lindsey D. Bruett, Lisa Hail, Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold, Josh D. Woolley, Adele Lafrance and Marissa Raymond-Flesch
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:64
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  8. Suicide is a major public health problem and one of the top causes of death among adolescents worldwide. The Ethiopian government works to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being in adolescents through the...

    Authors: Berhan Tekeba, Tadesse Tarik Tamir, Derese Abebe Gebrehana, Yohannes Abich, Nebebe Demis Baykemagn, Melaku Alelign Mengstie and Alebachew Ferede Zegeye
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:63
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  9. During the most recent global crisis due to COVID-19 pandemic, mental health researchers globally were tasked with carrying out high-quality and responsive research to understand the changes and long-term traj...

    Authors: Jennifer McMahon, Sonja March, Martha Oakes, Wendy K. Silverman, Cathy Creswell, Arlen Rowe, Mohsen Rajabi and Simona Skripkauskaite
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:62
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  10. Adolescent mental health has declined in recent decades. Few studies have explored whether shifts in interpersonal behaviours– both in-person and online– can help explain this decline. Using data from two Swed...

    Authors: Moa Nilsson, Benjamin Claréus, Jonas Bjärehed, Marlene Bjärehed and Daiva Daukantaitė
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:61
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  11. This study evaluated pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD frequently presents with co-occurring depression and anxiety. This complex phenotype ofte...

    Authors: Sheldon R. Garrison, Sophie A. Schweinert, Matthew W. Boyer, Maharaj Singh, Sreya Vadapalli, Jeffery M. Engelmann, Rachel A. Schwartz and Madeline M. Hartig
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:60
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  13. Aberrant resting state electroencephalography (rsEEG) is a well-established indicator of psychopathological brain activity in clinical disorders. In Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a substantial body of resear...

    Authors: Gabriel Anton Auer, Paul Lukas Plener, Luise Poustka and Lilian Konicar
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:58
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  14. The 2019 outbreak of COVID-19, a severe acute respiratory infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, triggered a global pandemic with far-reaching consequences. Societies worldwide felt the effects of the virus...

    Authors: Engie Frentzen, Jörg M. Fegert, Andres Martin and Andreas Witt
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:57
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  15. Establishing a primary psychological healthcare system to prevent suicide was eagerly advocated. Such system was developed as a low-cost healthcare framework integrating family, school, and hospitals to provid...

    Authors: Wei Li, Xuerong Liu, Qianyu Zhang, Xiaobing Tian, Xianyong An, Jidong Ren, Xiaodi Han, Jingyu Lei, Chang Shen, Yanyan Li, Ji Chen, Lei Xia, Jingxuan Zhang, Yi Wu, Jie Gong, Hai Lan…
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:56
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  16. Subclinical disruptive behavior problems often occur during childhood and are a risk factor for developing a mental disorder later in life. To prevent a manifestation of dysfunctional disruptive behavior, earl...

    Authors: Maria McDonald, Theresia Fippel, Susanne Knappe, Patricia Theresa Porst, Cornelia Beate Siegmund, Julia Zink, Max Weniger, Katja Beesdo-Baum and Veit Roessner
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:55
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  17. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) has received increasing attention for its role in the development and maintenance of generalized anxiety. However, little is known about the temporal and causal relationships be...

    Authors: Haoxian Ye, Yunyi Li, Yike Huang, Yiming Zhang, Jiaxiong Zhang, Jiaqi Wang, Keying Liu, Yuyi Yao, Xinyu Shi, Yijia Liu and Fang Fan
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:54
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  18. Clinical assessments rely primarily on patients’ emotional expressions and scale scores. However, due to cognitive differences and the complexity of emotional expression among adolescents, existing assessment ...

    Authors: Xinyu Li, Wei Jin, Lu Han, Xingyu Chen and Lihong Li
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:53
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  19. Mental health issues in preschool children are a significant public health concern with long-term developmental implications. Understanding how reallocations of time among different 24-hour movement behaviors-...

    Authors: Tian Wang, Junyu Wang, Xuelin Lu, Xuhui Chen, Lanzhi Chen, Yixin Liang, DongQing Yang, Yanmei Shi, Rui Li, Yong Yang, Beibei Luo and Jie Zhuang
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:52
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  20. Bullying has become a significant global health problem due to its high prevalence worldwide and long-term consequences on mental health, including the onset of psychotic symptoms. This study focuses on explor...

    Authors: Tecelli Domínguez, Lourdes Nieto, Ana Fresán, Tamara Sheinbaum and Rebeca Robles
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:51
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  21. During the pandemic, parenting stress and mental health challenges for both parents and children have increased. However, the lasting repercussions for families remain largely unexplored. Additionally, young f...

    Authors: Katharina Richter, Catherine Buechel, Michaela Augustin, Anna Friedmann, Volker Mall and Ina Nehring
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:50
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  22. The diagnosis of personality disorders (PD) in adolescence still poses a challenge. Early diagnosis and targeted intervention are called for, since patients with PD present with severe consequences in terms of...

    Authors: C. Laczkovics, K. Czernin, A. Bründlmayer, M. Zeiler, W. Bangerl, C. Prause, P. L. Plener, S. Doering, V. Blüml, J. Carlitscheck, S. Bender and M. Krischer
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:49
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  23. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a significant mental health concern affecting children and adolescents, often resulting from exposure to traumatic events such as violence, natural disasters, or abuse....

    Authors: Tadesse Tarik Tamir, Berhan Tekeba, Enyew Getaneh Mekonen, Deresse Abebe Gebrehana and Alebachew Ferede Zegeye
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:48
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  24. It is becoming widely recognized that emotion regulation difficulties are an essential feature present along the continuum from subclinical to clinical Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Yet, it ...

    Authors: Elena Poznyak and Martin Debbané
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:47
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  25. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are strongly associated with mental and physical health problems across the lifespan, emphasizing the critical need for prevention. Sex-specific differences in both the pre...

    Authors: Max Supke, Kurt Hahlweg, Wolfgang Schulz and Ann-Katrin Job
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:46
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  26. This study explored the impact of physical exercise on internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors among Chinese middle school students.

    Authors: Jingtao Wu, Xinjuan Zhao, Yanhong Shao, Wanli Zang, Hu Jun and Wenjun Yu
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:45
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  27. Many studies have aimed to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. However, less research has focused on the changes in symptom clusters of comorbid disorders. To understand the impact...

    Authors: Charlotte M. K. Milewczyk, Martin Holtmann, Tanja Legenbauer and Laura M. Derks
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:44
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  28. Among early-onset conduct problems (CP), associated with more disruptive behaviors of greater intensity and stability, several domains have been proposed from a variable-centered perspective to capture their h...

    Authors: Beatriz Díaz-Vázquez, María Álvarez-Voces, Estrella Romero and Laura López-Romero
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:43
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  29. Experiences of medical specialist trainees in psychiatry can be informative for those who seek to improve post-graduate training. This study aimed to explore the experience of child and adolescent psychiatry (...

    Authors: Peter Deschamps, Brian Jacobs, Anna Sofie Hansen, Tjhin Wiguna, Suaad Moussa, Aisha Sanober Chachar, André Luiz Schuh Teixeira da Rosa, Víctor Pereira-Sánchez and Marie-Aude Piot
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:42
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  30. The Covid-19 pandemic restrictions severely impacted parents’ and children’s mental and physical health. Families with pre-existing stress factors may have been particularly affected. Parental stress following...

    Authors: Alina Fendel, Tamara Fuschlberger, Anna Friedmann, Ina Nehring, Marcus Krüger, Volker Mall and Verena Kraus
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:41
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  31. This meta-analysis aims to assess the efficacy of behavioral therapy for selective mutism (SM) using the Selective Mutism Questionnaire (SMQ) and School Speech Questionnaire (SSQ).

    Authors: Daichi Iimura, Natsuki Tsujita, Mizuki Aoki and Hiromichi Hagihara
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:40
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  32. Depression is a significant issue affecting adolescents’ mental health. While depression research is relatively extensive, studies focusing on left-behind adolescents from single-parent families remain limited...

    Authors: Wang-Cheng Cen, Cheng-Han Li, Wen-Jing Yan and Yu-Qi Sun
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:39
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  33. A growing body of literature suggests that creative arts interventions can effectively support mental health and well-being in young people. We recently reported that after participating in “Creativity Camp”– ...

    Authors: Yuko Taniguchi, Olivia Costa, Athen Ortega, Shanze Hayee, Josie Friedman, Michaelle E. DiMaggio-Potter, Jered Bright, Peng Wu, Angie P. Mejia, Gail A. Bernstein, Bryon A. Mueller, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan, Wilma Koutstaal and Kathryn R. Cullen
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:38
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  34. A positive school climate benefits adolescents in multiple developmental dimensions. However, theoretical frameworks suggest that detrimental parenting practices can trigger adolescents’ negative emotional sta...

    Authors: Jiajie He, He Xiao, Jian Mao, Peizhi Zhong, Junfeng Wei, Wenhao Gu and Yangang Nie
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:37
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  35. This study explores the relationship between cyberbullying, mental health, and sexual minority groups, focusing on the specific impact of cyberbullying on these individuals’ mental wellbeing. Previous researc...

    Authors: Man Luo, Zhizhou Duan, Wenqun Luo and Zhiping Niu
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:36
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  36. High serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) blood levels are the most reliable and frequently replicated biomarker for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). However, their differential influence on core ASD sympto...

    Authors: Qiu-hong Mou, Qian Zhang, Li Chen, Ying Dai, Hua Wei, Fei-Yong Jia, Yan Hao, Ling Li, Jie Zhang, Li-Jie Wu, Xiao-Yan Ke, Ming-Ji Yi, Qi Hong, Jin-Jin Chen, Shuan-Feng Fang, Yi-Chao Wang…
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:35
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  37. The increasing urgency to address rising loneliness among adolescents has become a critical issue, underscoring the need for further studies on its association with mental and physical health. The objective wa...

    Authors: Zdenek Meier, Jakub Helvich, Jana Furstova, Lukas Novak, Dana Purova, Radka Zidkova and Peter Tavel
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:34
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  38. To improve rehabilitation and reduce recidivism, adolescent criminal law provides tailor-made sanctioning in which the emphasis is on the offender’s development. This results in the possibility that juvenile s...

    Authors: Lise J. C. Prop, André M. van der Laan, Marinus G. C. J. Beerthuizen, Charlotte S. Barendregt and Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:33
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  39. School bullying has become a significant educational and public health issue worldwide. Boarding secondary school students, who live within the school environment and away from familial support, are particular...

    Authors: Xiaoyang Liu, Ling Zhang, Yijin Wu, You Xin, Ye Wang and Xiaoyou Su
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:32
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  40. Parents’ perceptions of their child’s mental health play a crucial role in their decision to seek mental health services. Additionally, mental health literacy, which includes knowledge about mental health diso...

    Authors: Marie Bringer, Sylvain Bodard, Ana Moscoso, Anne Revah-Levy, Diane Purper-Ouakil, Eric Acquaviva, Richard Delorme, Benjamin Landman and Jordan Sibeoni
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:31
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  41. The primary aim of the present study was to examine the association of four complementary measures—suicidal cognitions, entrapment, mental pain, and depression—with past suicide attempts in early adolescence. ...

    Authors: Jon García-Ormaza, Jeffrey V. Tabares, Ennio Ammendola and Alexander Muela
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:30
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  42. Adolescence is a developmental period during which an estimated 75% of mental health problems emerge (Solmi et al. in Mol Psychiat 27:281–295, 2022). This paper reports a feasibility study of a novel indicated...

    Authors: Alex Lloyd, Roslyn Law, Nick Midgley, Tom Wu, Laura Lucas, Erin Atkinson, Nikolaus Steinbeis, Peter Martin, René Veenstra, Jaime Smith, Lili Ly, Geoffrey Bird, Jennifer Murphy, David Plans, Marcus Munafò, Ian Penton-Voak…
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:29
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  43. An explanation for somatic complaints in adolescence assumes that they have the function to express emotional burden if the communication of feelings in important relationships does not work sufficiently. Ther...

    Authors: Holger Zapf
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:28
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  44. Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a common phenomenon; a recent meta-analysis of studies conducted among non-clinical adolescents reported a global lifetime prevalence rate of 22.0%. NSSI results in significan...

    Authors: Sherilyn Chang, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Bernard Tan, Yeow Wee Brian Tan, Ellaisha Samari, S. Archana, Yi Chian Chua, Yi Ping Lee, Charmaine Tang, Swapna Verma and Mythily Subramaniam
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:27
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  45. Research increasingly demonstrates a positive association between Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) and conduct problems among adolescents. However, longitudinal data are limited, and the mediating mechanisms rem...

    Authors: Pu Peng, Jieyin Jin, Zhangming Chen, Silan Ren, Ying He, Jinguang Li, Aijun Liao, Linlin Zhao, Xu Shao, Shanshan Chen, Ruini He, Yudiao Liang, Youguo Tan, Xiaogang Chen, Jinsong Tang and Yanhui Liao
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:26
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  46. Unaccompanied young refugees (UYRs) report high rates of post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety, and low mental health service utilization. Studies have examined the experiences of psychotherapists and ...

    Authors: Flora Katrin Dietlinger, Barbara Kasparik, Johanna Unterhitzenberger, Laura Bebra Saupe and Rita Rosner
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:25
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  48. Nocturnal enuresis (NE), a prevalent childhood condition associated with significant emotional morbidity, including anxiety, guilt, and diminished self-esteem. Notably, NE exhibits substantial variability in p...

    Authors: Molalign Aligaz Adisu, Tesfaye Engdaw Habtie, Melesse Abiye Munie, Molla Azmeraw Bizuayehu, Alemu Birara Zemariam and Yabibal Asfaw Derso
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:23
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  49. Previous research has identified growing up in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a protective factor against childhood abuse and neglect compared to growing up in the former Federal Republic of Ge...

    Authors: C. Kasinger, S. Heiner, A. Heller, T. McLaren, M. Beutel, V. Clemens and E. Brähler
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:22
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  50. Previous research on adolescents’ subjective well-being has not focused on the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood. Moreover, explorations of the factors influencing adolescents’ subjective wel...

    Authors: Songli Mei, Chengbin Zheng, Leilei Liang, Marhaba Kiyum, Tongshuang Yuan, Junsong Fei, Kai Liu, Honghua Li and Xinli Lin
    Citation: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2025 19:21
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