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Differences in Utilization of Mental Health Treatment Among Children and Adolescents With Medicaid or Private Insurance
- Source :
- Psychiatric Services. 70:329-332
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2019.
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Abstract
- Children and adolescents with diagnosed mental disorders may require developmentally tailored interventions. However, little is known about the difference in mental health treatment utilization among children by age group and health insurance coverage.Using the 2016 MarketScan database, the study examined treatment utilization patterns by health insurance coverage (private and Medicaid) and developmental age group (preschool-age children, ages 3-5; young children, ages 6-11; and adolescents, ages 12-17).Psychiatric medication only was the most common form of treatment utilization among all children, regardless of developmental age group or insurance coverage. Specifically, psychiatric medication only was received by 38% of preschool-aged children with Medicaid and 42% of those with private insurance, 43% of young children with Medicaid and 39% of those with private insurance, and 55% of adolescents with Medicaid and 49% of those with private insurance.Given that evidence-based practices suggest that combined treatment with psychiatric medications and psychotherapy may be the recommended treatment, the study's findings raise potential concerns about the high use of medication-only treatment.
- Subjects :
- Male
Mental Health Services
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Databases, Factual
Poison control
Suicide prevention
Insurance Coverage
Occupational safety and health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Psychiatric medication
Injury prevention
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Insurance, Psychiatric
Child
Psychiatry
Psychotropic Drugs
Medicaid
business.industry
Human factors and ergonomics
Mental health treatment
United States
030227 psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Psychiatry and Mental health
Child, Preschool
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15579700 and 10752730
- Volume :
- 70
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychiatric Services
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0e26262b7a02a35f031fdaa3a8bfc7e8