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Difficulty Obtaining Behavioral Health Services for Children: A National Survey of Multiphysician Practices.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In the United States, primary care practices rely on scarce resources to deliver evidence-based care for children with behavioral health disorders such as depression, anxiety, other mental illness, or substance use disorders. We estimated the proportion of practices that have difficulty accessing these resources and whether practices owned by a health system or participating in Medicaid accountable care organizations (ACOs) report less difficulty.

Methods

This national cross-sectional study examined how difficult it is for practices to obtain pediatric (1) medication advice, (2) evidence-based psychotherapy, and (3) family-based therapy. We used the National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems 2017-2018 (46.9% response rate), which sampled multiphysician primary and multispecialty care practices including 1,410 practices that care for children. We characterized practices' experience as "difficult" relative to "not at all difficult" using a 4-point ordinal scale. We used mixed-effects generalized linear models to estimate differences comparing system-owned vs independent practices and Medicaid ACO participants vs nonparticipants, adjusting for practice attributes.

Results

More than 85% of practices found it difficult to obtain help with evidence-based elements of pediatric behavioral health care. Adjusting for practice attributes, the percent experiencing difficulty was similar between system-owned and independent practices but was less for Medicaid ACO participants for medication advice (81% vs 89%; P = .021) and evidence-based psychotherapy (81% vs 90%; P = .006); differences were not significant for family-based treatment (85% vs 91%; P = .107).

Conclusions

Most multiphysician practices struggle to obtain advice and services for child behavioral health needs, which are increasing nationally. Future studies should investigate the source of observed associations.

SUBMITTER: Chien AT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8786429 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Difficulty Obtaining Behavioral Health Services for Children: A National Survey of Multiphysician Practices.

Chien Alyna T AT Leyenaar JoAnna J Tomaino Marisa M Woloshin Steven S Leininger Lindsey L Barnett Erin R ER McLaren Jennifer L JL Meara Ellen E

Annals of family medicine 20220101 1

<h4>Purpose</h4>In the United States, primary care practices rely on scarce resources to deliver evidence-based care for children with behavioral health disorders such as depression, anxiety, other mental illness, or substance use disorders. We estimated the proportion of practices that have difficulty accessing these resources and whether practices owned by a health system or participating in Medicaid accountable care organizations (ACOs) report less difficulty.<h4>Methods</h4>This national cro ...[more]

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