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    Factors Influencing Mental Health Service Utilization by Children with Serious Emotional and Behavioral Disturbance: Results from the LAMS Study

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    2011-06
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    Mendenhall, Amy N.
    Demeter, Christine
    Findling, Robert L.
    Frazier, Thomas W.
    Fristad, Mary A.
    Youngstrom, Eric A.
    Arnold, L. Eugene
    Birmaher, Boris
    Gill, Mary Kay
    Axelson, David
    Kowatch, Robert A.
    Horwitz, Sarah McCue
    Publisher
    American Psychiatric Publishing
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    Article
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    Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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    OBJECTIVE: To describe service utilization of a cohort of children with emotional and behavioral disorders who visited outpatient mental health clinics in four Midwest cities. METHOD: Data come from the Longitudinal Assessment of Manic Symptoms (LAMS) Study. 707 youth (ages 6–12 years) and their parents completed diagnostic assessments, demographic information and an assessment of mental health service utilization. Analyses examined the relationship of demographics, diagnoses, impairment, and comorbidity to the type and level of services utilized. RESULTS: Service utilization is multimodal with half of the youth receiving both outpatient and school services during their lifetime. Non-need factors including age, sex, race, and insurance, were related to types of services used. Youth diagnosed with a bipolar spectrum disorder had higher utilization of inpatient services and two or more services at one time compared to youth diagnosed with depressive or disruptive disorders. More than half of youth diagnosed with bipolar or depressive disorders had received both medication and therapy during their lifetime whereas for youth diagnosed with a disruptive disorder therapy only was more common. Impairment and comorbidity were not related to service utilization. CONCLUSIONS: Use of mental health services for children begins at a very young age and occurs in multiple service sectors. Type of service use is related to insurance and race/ethnicity, underscoring the need for research on treatment disparities. Contrary to findings from results based on administrative data, medication alone was infrequent. However, the reasonably low use of combination therapy suggests that clinicians and families need to be educated on the effectiveness of multimodal treatment.
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    The official published article is available online at http://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.62.6.650.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24684
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    https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.62.6.650
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    Mendenhall, A. N., Demeter, C., Findling, R. L., Frazier, T. W., Fristad, M. A., Youngstrom, E. A., … Horwitz, S. M. (2011). Factors Influencing Mental Health Service Utilization by Children with Serious Emotional and Behavioral Disturbance: Results from the LAMS Study. Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.), 62(6), 650–658. http://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.62.6.650

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