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Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

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01-07-2007 | Original Paper

Persistence of Mental Health Service Use among Latino Children: A Clinical and Community Study

Authors: Alexander N. Ortega, Ligia Chavez, Moira Inkelas, Glorisa Canino

Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Issue 4/2007

Abstract

This study examined predictors of treatment persistence (receiving mental health services at two time points one year apart) among children in Puerto Rico who had previously sought care for mental health concerns. Children and their primary caregivers completed interviews one year apart. Treatment persistence was lower among children recruited from community sampling (n = 137) than those children recruited from public and private clinics (N = 381). Persistence was associated with psychological measures of need and co-morbidity only in the clinical sample, while in both samples persistence was associated with measures of family burden and school functioning. In multivariate analyses, persistence was associated in both the clinical and community samples with a measure of school functioning but not with diagnosis, impairment, or parental concerns about the child’s behavior.

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Title: Persistence of Mental Health Service Use among Latino Children: A Clinical and Community Study
Authors: Alexander N. Ortega
Ligia Chavez
Moira Inkelas
Glorisa Canino
Publication date: 01-07-2007
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research / Issue 4/2007
Print ISSN: 0894-587X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-007-0114-2

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