Role of referrals in mental health service disparities for racial and ethnic minority youth.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate racial/ethnic differences in teachers' and other adults' identification and/or encouragement of parents to seek treatment for psychiatric problems in their children and to evaluate if and whether identification/encouragement is associated with service use.

Method

Data on identification/encouragement to seek treatment for externalizing disorders (i.e., attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional-defiant disorder, and/or conduct disorder) and internalizing disorders (i.e., major depressive episode/dysthymia and/or separation anxiety disorder) and services used were obtained for 6,112 adolescents (13-17 years of age) in the National Comorbidity Survey Adolescent Supplement. Racial/ethnic differences were examined for Latinos, non-Latino black

SUBMITTER: Alegria M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3652396 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature