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14.10.2015 | Original Article
Availability of Youth Services in U.S. Mental Health Treatment Facilities
verfasst von:
Janet R. Cummings, Brady G. Case, Xu Ji, Steven C. Marcus
Erschienen in:
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
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Ausgabe 5/2016
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Abstract
Despite concern about access to mental health (MH) services for youth, little is known about the specialty treatment infrastructure serving this population. We used national data to examine which types of MH treatment facilities (hospital- and community-based) were most likely to offer youth services and which types of communities were most likely to have this infrastructure. Larger (p < 0.001) and privately owned (p < 0.001) facilities were more likely to offer youth services. Rural counties, counties in which a majority of residents were nonwhite, and/or counties with a higher percentage of uninsured residents were less likely to have a community-based MH treatment facility that served youth (p < 0.001).