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Tamsin Ford1, Helena Hamilton1, Howard Meltzer2
1Box 085, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
Background:
Most previous studies of service use in relation to mental health have examined services in the USA. We wanted to provide up-to-date findings from a general population sample of British schoolchildren.
Method:
A total of 2461 children aged 5-15 from the 1999 British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Survey were followed up for 3 years. We examine the relationship between a wide variety of potential predictors gathered in 1999 and the use of services over the following 3 years.
Results:
Contact with most services was predicted by three factors: the impact of psychopathology; contact with teachers or primary health care; and parents' and teachers' perceptions that the child had significant difficulties. Other predictors were specific to each service.
Conclusions:
Education of parents, teachers and other important adults might increase the proportion of children with impairing psychiatric disorders reaching services.
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