Objective: Inpatient care is the most widely used intensive care component of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) internationally. In some studies, child and adolescent inpatient care has been shown to be effective and remains a neccesary function of a comprehensive child and adolescent mental health service. Our aim is to examine the treatment outcome of our newly opened CAMHS inpatient unit in terms of patients functioning levels via key variables which were measured at two time periods, namely (i) at admission to the unit and (ii) at discharge
