儿童和青少年报告为心理健康问题与专业服务的接触:二次数据分析
Frances Mathews1, Tamsin Jane Ford2, Simon White3
1University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK. f.mathews2@exeter.ac.uk.
European child & adolescent psychiatry
|January 3, 2024
概括
许多患有心理健康诊断的儿童和年轻人获得专业服务,但老年青少年和少数民族的获取率较低. 了解这些差异是改善儿童心理健康支持的关键.
科学领域:
- 儿童和青少年心理健康
- 公共卫生研究 公共卫生研究
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 儿童和青少年心理健康服务面临着巨大的压力,COVID-19大流行加剧了这种压力.
- 了解寻求帮助的行为对于识别和支持过度负担的服务至关重要.
- 以前的研究表明,年轻人群体在获得心理健康护理方面存在差异.
研究的目的:
- 调查父母和患有精神健康问题的年轻人使用的专业服务.
- 识别不同年龄组,性别,种族和诊断的服务获取模式.
- 为加强对儿童和青少年心理健康支持的战略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 2017年英格兰儿童和青少年心理健康调查数据的二次分析.
- 包括7608份与心理健康相关的专业服务联系人报告.
- 根据精神疾病诊断和统计手册 (DSM-V) 的诊断,年龄,性别和种族分层分析数据.
主要成果:
- 只有不到三分之二 (5-16岁) 患有DSM-V诊断的儿童和青少年报告与专业服务接触.
- 与年轻年龄组相比,17至19岁的年轻人 (50.1%) 的服务接触率较低.
- 来自黑人,亚裔和混合族群的儿童和年轻人报告与专业服务的接触比白人群体少.
结论:
- 许多患有精神疾病的年轻人无法获得专业服务,特别是老年青少年和少数民族背景的青少年.
- 调查结果强调了服务提供和弱势青年人群获取服务的关键差距.
- 需要进一步调查,以解决特定人口群体报告的服务获取率较低的问题,以确保公平的精神卫生保健.
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