A National Examination of Child Psychiatric Telephone Consultation Programs' Impact on Children's Mental Health Care Utilization

Bradley D Stein; Aaron Kofner; William B Vogt; Hao Yu

doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.026

A National Examination of Child Psychiatric Telephone Consultation Programs' Impact on Children's Mental Health Care Utilization

J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2019 Oct;58(10):1016-1019. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2019.04.026. Epub 2019 Jun 27.

Authors

Bradley D Stein¹, Aaron Kofner², William B Vogt³, Hao Yu²

Affiliations

¹ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA. Electronic address: stein@rand.org.
² RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.
³ University of Georgia Terry College of Business, Athens, GA.

Abstract

Estimates are that half of children with mental health problems do not receive needed treatment.¹ One of the barriers they face is that there are not enough child mental health specialty providers to meet their needs.² Pediatric providers, who might partially fill this gap, often feel they lack the training to treat children's mental health disorders without consulting a specialist.³.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adolescent Health Services / organization & administration*
Adolescent Health Services / standards
Child
Child Health Services / organization & administration*
Child Health Services / standards
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Disorders / therapy*
Patient Acceptance of Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
Program Evaluation
Referral and Consultation*
Telephone*
United States

Grants and funding

R01 MH112760/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States