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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 4/2006

01-04-2006 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Explaining service use for mental health problems in the Dutch general population: the role of resources, emotional disorder and functional impairment

Authors: Margreet ten Have, Jurjen Iedema, Johan Ormel, Wilma Vollebergh

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 4/2006

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Abstract

Objective

To analyse explanations of service use in terms of resources, emotional (mood or anxiety) disorder and functional impairment.

Method

Data was derived from a prospective cohort study in a sample representative (n = 4848) of the Dutch adult general population.

Results

The occurrence of an emotional (mood or anxiety) disorder led to a greater use of services as a partial consequence of the functional impairments that accompanied the disorder, but this applied only to primary care services and not to specialised mental health services. After adjustment for the influence of all other determinants in the model, people with more education and those with higher neuroticism scores were more likely to use specialised services in particular.

Conclusions

Future research could benefit from applying the models derived here to further clarify the use of the two service modalities, as well as to assess additional psychological resources.
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Metadata
Title
Explaining service use for mental health problems in the Dutch general population: the role of resources, emotional disorder and functional impairment
Authors
Margreet ten Have
Jurjen Iedema
Johan Ormel
Wilma Vollebergh
Publication date
01-04-2006
Publisher
Steinkopff-Verlag
Published in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 4/2006
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-005-0028-9

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